ILE a question "do you say CURSE or CUSS"

i say. . .fuck you

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/PopularScience/7-1946/stop_cussin.jpg

This is a code-switching thing for me; around most people I say "curse," around my redneck side of the family I say "cuss."

In the context I think you are talking about, neither, I say "swear".

If I were talking about an evil curse, I would say curse, but I don't think anyone would say I've been cussed by a witch, would they?

I said 'cuss up until a few years ago, but then I noticed people were giving me weird looks every time I said it. so i switched to "fartywords"

suck my farts you mothershitters

Yeah, swear is what I'd say, too. But given the choice between curse and cuss, come on, what are you, 12? "Cuss"? Really?

Swear or curse.

Always felt like a phony attempting to say "cuss" when I was a kid because it sounded like I was putting on a fake accent. I say curse. Lotsa people I grew up with said cuss, hence the pressure to conform and my aforementioned resistance to it.

Baring one's dirtypillows.

"bad words"

In the context I think you are talking about, neither, I say "swear".

If I were talking about an evil curse, I would say curse, but I don't think anyone would say I've been cussed by a witch, would they?

― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, January 8, 2014 2:59 PM (12 minutes ago)

This for me, too. Though an evil witch probably knows plenty of cuss-words.

couldn't give a tinker's cuss tbh

come on, what are you, 12? "Cuss"? Really?

Yes, everyone on my mother's side of the family, including my mother, is 12. Thanks for the classism!

I cuss and I am not twelve years old, I am fifty years old.

i tell kids not to curse

i cuss

friday nights with the gentlemen are 'cussin and drinkin'

and then we chew some straw and do a jig

If we heard mortar shells
We'd cuss more in our songs
And cut down on guitar solos

If the word is good enough for Watt, it's good enough for me.

come on, what are you, 12? "Cuss"? Really?

this may shock you but there are regional differences in the words and enunciations that people choose to use. i hear the redcoats even say lift instead of vertical moving box!

the vertie, we called it

never heard someone say cuss cept, like, Walter Brennan in a movie

Cuss, of course. "Curse" is, like, something a witch does.

definitely "swear". happy to have this common ground with england.

phil - branwell mocked someone on a thread for being sexually assaulted so i really wouldn't sweat her classist mockery of 'cuss'. she's a horrible human being.

you can't fight in the cussin room

I'm British

Swear.

I'm more likely to say "curse" than "cuss", but "swear" would be the correct choice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFD9lW9PGM4

I don't reall use cuss but I mentally note a distinction bewteen the two words. Cussing is using 'bad' words. Cursing is inviting disaster on someone or something.

What's really amusing about the exchange upthread is that the usually Appalachian/Southern US "cuss" sounds, phonetically and with the proper accent, a lot closer to the RP British English pronunciation of "curse."

ha.

i say "curse" but i knew a lot of folks who say "cuss" and are way past 12 years old/from a different region.

swear

phil - branwell mocked someone on a thread for being sexually assaulted so i really wouldn't sweat her classist mockery of 'cuss'. she's a horrible human being.

― balls, Wednesday, January 8, 2014 8:14 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

god get the fuck over yourself

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no one irl says 'cuss'

a real tuomas would have given us finnish alternatives

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Curse. Cuss sounds like some weird southern or very old fashioned thing to me.

I don't think this deserves it's own thread but I'm curious about it so I'm gonna ask it here (don't be mad, Hoos!). Does booted as in "He booted all over the place" mean anything to you guys?

(I'm basically wondering if this is a regional thing)

vomited obvs

tooted + booted

I only learned about "booted" in college from a (possibly Canadian?/New England?) fellow student.

For me, booted always means ejected to me, unless there are actual boots involved.

I learned booting meant vomiting when I was around 30.

I am pretty sure I grew up with "booted"

I thought it was reserved specifically for vomiting into the trunk of a car.

In Britain

swear down

I only know "booted" from Chris Miller's stories in National Lampoon about going to Dartmouth, which became the basis for Animal House. e.g.,

The principles for which the Adelphian Lodge stood, and which had brought about its fame, were stated in their Credo, a large, hand -lettered sign that hung behind the bar: Sickness is health, blackness is truth, drinking is strength. And if there was a single event which embodied the entire Adelphian Zeitgeist, it was the Night of the Seven Fires. Pinto didn't know everything that would go on at the Fires, but he knew the main thing. It was booting, a process of drinking and throwing up, drinking and throwing up, until no one could stay on their feet anymore, I In this fashion, they would be transformed from pledges into brothers. What was more, the pledge who threw the overall most colorful show of the night would be awarded the pledge prize.

Bad words/cursing/swearing back when i cared

Tinkers cuss otm

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shouts

well, lah-dee-dah.