Editing Minced oath (section)

==Literature and censorship==
{{Main|Minced oaths in media}}
It is common to find minced oaths in literature and media. Writers sometimes face the problem of portraying characters who swear and often include minced oaths instead of [[profanity]] in their writing so that they will not offend audiences or incur [[censorship]]. One example is ''[[The Naked and the Dead]]'', where publishers required author [[Norman Mailer]] to use the minced oath "fug" over his objections.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chirico |first=Rob |date=2016-05-12 |title=When F--k Was Fug |url=https://slate.com/human-interest/2016/05/how-the-f-word-was-written-in-1948.html |access-date=2022-09-21 |website=Slate Magazine |language=en}}</ref> [[Somerset Maugham]] referred to this problem in his novel ''[[The Moon and Sixpence]]'' (1919), in which the narrator explained that "Strickland, according to Captain Nichols, did not use exactly the words I have given, but since this book is meant for family reading, I thought it better—at the expense of truth—to put into his mouth language familiar to the domestic circle".<ref>Maugham, Somerset. ''The Moon and Sixpence'', ch. 47; quoted in Hughes, 187.</ref>

[[J. R. R. Tolkien]] pretends a similar mincing of profanity in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', stating in Appendix F of the novel: "But Orcs and Trolls spoke as they would, without love of words or things; and their language was actually more degraded and filthy than I have shown it. I do not suppose that any will wish for a closer rendering, though models are easy to find."<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yl4dILkcqm4C|page=761|title=The Lord of the Rings: One Volume|author-link=J.R.R. Tolkien|first=J.R.R.|last=Tolkien|publisher=[[Houghton Mifflin Harcourt]]|year=2012|isbn=9780547951942}}</ref>