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Balinese 5
Banks 262
banter 87, 227
Barker 73
Baron 261, 262
basal ganglia 249, 276
Bataille 269
Báthory 22
Bat-Ireedui 265
Bauro 161
bawdy 245
Beaumont 16
Becker 276
Bekkers 146
Benson 259
Berecz 275
Bering 265
Besterman 255
Bible 5, 10, 11, 15, 145, 152, 160,
163, 164, 165, 178, 216, 240, 255, 257,
267, 270, 272
Bilmes 257
black 4, 22, 25, 41, 45, 83–5, 97, 99, 102, 103,
107, 108, 113, 156, 173, 189, 231
Black, D. 204, 273
Black, M. 271
blackguard 30, 68, 70
Blackledge 7, 148, 151, 162, 266, 269
blackmail 153
Blackwell 258
Bland 159
blasphemy 13, 15, 16, 32, 38, 76, 88, 105, 106,
127, 239, 240, 248–50, 255
Blind Lemon Jefferson 161
blood 2, 6, 18, 22, 41, 50, 53, 83, 145, 152,
161–71, 173, 180, 181, 186, 188, 198, 213,
217, 242, 250, 264, 266
bloody 51, 106, 167, 169, 173, 246
Bloomfield 44, 258
Blum-Kulka 257
Boccaccio 23, 257
bodily 1, 9, 26, 27, 41, 80, 85, 102, 106, 107,
125, 144, 159, 161, 162, 171–5, 179, 190,
193, 196, 202, 204, 205, 215, 217, 224, 239,
243, 251, 266
Bolinger 67, 97, 259, 262, 264
bollocks 52, 74
Booth 266
Börjars 274
Boswell 249
Bowdler, bowdlerism 24, 25, 109, 110, 184, 245
Boyle 257
brain 12, 45, 78, 82, 87, 88, 90, 101, 175, 181,
182, 193, 199, 216, 237, 246, 247, 249, 256,
261, 274, 275, 276
Brain, J. 273, 274
breach 1, 6, 10, 11, 36, 37, 40, 60, 102, 128
breast 10, 23, 45, 73, 79, 102, 128, 129, 150,
151, 163, 179, 182, 220, 255, 272
Bright 265
Brillat-Savarin 193, 201, 271, 272
Britain, British 4, 17, 37, 43, 44, 46, 47, 48, 51,
52, 56, 63, 70, 91, 100, 103, 108, 109, 113,
115, 139, 140, 148, 153, 154, 167, 170, 177,
182, 188, 189, 194, 207, 219, 220, 229, 230,
240, 241, 257, 258, 261, 267
Bromley 273
Brown, B. 107
Brown, P. 257, 266
Brown, R. 266
Brugman 176, 271
Bryson 55
Buchanan 117, 264
bugger, buggery 21, 26, 107, 153, 154
bulimia 179
Bundy 22
Burchfield 108, 263, 264
bureaucratese 62, 63, 232, 239
Burke 56
Burley 261
Burr 270
Burridge 2, 83, 121, 163, 173, 243, 244, 259,
262–4, 269–72, 274, 276
Bush, George W. 5, 177, 218, 251, 261, 274
Bybee 260
Bynum 179, 271
Caligula 22
Callahan 84
Callen 273
Cameron 112, 122, 260–4, 266, 269
Campbell, D. 112
Campbell, G. 116, 264
Camporesi 172, 270
cancer 64, 165, 211–13, 216, 217, 219–21,
235, 245, 251
cannibalism 4, 175, 186–8, 194, 201
Caribs 187
Cassileth 64
casual 34, 35, 54, 71, 74, 75, 138, 141, 153,
154, 156, 241, 265
catamenia 164, 166, 191
censoring 1, 2, 12, 13, 22, 24, 25, 27–9, 33, 39,
45, 46, 49, 53–5, 67–9, 71, 80, 84, 87–90,
102, 109–12, 115, 116, 118, 120, 122, 125,
143, 145, 155, 174, 219, 221, 223, 228, 229,
234, 236–9, 242, 243, 246, 249–53, 274
censorship 1, 2, 12–20, 22–7, 45, 71, 79, 84, 89,
100, 102, 107, 109, 110, 112, 122, 125, 145,
155, 173, 238, 249–51, 256, 257, 262