Editing Cunt (section)

== History ==
The earliest known use of the word, according to the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'', was as part of a [[placename]]: an Oxford street called [[Gropecunt Lane]], {{circa|1230}}, now by the name of Grove Passage or Magpie Lane. Use of the word as a term of abuse is relatively recent, dating from the late nineteenth century.<ref name="Morton">{{cite book |title= The Lover's Tongue: A Merry Romp Through the Language of Love and Sex|last= Morton |first= Mark |year= 2004|publisher= Insomniac Press|location= Toronto, Canada|isbn= 978-1-894663-51-9 }}</ref> The word was not considered [[Vulgarity|vulgar]] in the [[Middle Ages]], but became so during the seventeenth century,<ref name="Livingstone 2018 x888">{{cite magazine | last=Livingstone | first=Jo | title=What's So Bad About the C-Word? | magazine=The New Republic | date=5 June 2018 | url=https://newrepublic.com/article/148713/whats-bad-c-word | access-date=2 May 2024}}</ref> and it was omitted from dictionaries from the late eighteenth century until the 1960s.<ref name="Mack 2023 g946">{{cite magazine | last=Mack | first=David | title=The C-Word Is Everywhere Right Now -- And Not in a Bad Way | magazine=Rolling Stone | date=15 May 2023 | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/c-word-is-everywhere-lgbt-tucker-carlson-1234735324/ | access-date=2 May 2024}}</ref>