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How To Swear Like Shakespeare

On yesterday’s show, we looked at the evolution of swearing over the past 75 years–from the days when “damn” first appeared on the big screen in “Gone with the Wind,” to the present day when the “F-word” is routinely written into basic cable shows. It’s a conversation that ruffled many feathers. Dozens of you wrote […]

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Ghana’s The Sweet Talks

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