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Here’s An F-Word That’s OK To Say Around Children, But Really Hard To Explain To Them

Ever wonder how some words came to be known as “bad words”? Here’s a word you’re not used to thinking of as one. But it has every reason to be an F-word.

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Rajiv Narayan

Yes, this campaign is from 2011, but if you think that we solved the problem, then you should probably share this. Because we haven’t. And it’s still really f—ing important.

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