We want to emulate the educated class, even if we don't think of educated people as a class these days. Kory Stamper More Quotes by Kory Stamper More Quotes From Kory Stamper You will hear people say the C-word. Except, it's a regional language: in British English, c - t has much less of an inflammatory sense than it does in North American English. You can hear someone on British TV called "a c - ting monkey" or a man being called a c - t. The particular fascination of profanity is how culturally specific it is and how it evolves. Kory Stamper language men people