Given today's general bias towards euphemisms (cf. Arif, 2015), the topic of this paper may seem embarrassing and ill-chosen. However, it makes sense to find out to what extent the spoken language of dialects in former centuries correlated with one of the dark sides of everyday reality. In Britain up to the second half of the 19th century, traditional dialect was the common linguistic medium of the large majority of people (the lower and middle classes), just before the norm of ‘King's English’ and, in linguistics, of système, started playing a dominant role. We may assume that the English dialects of the Late Modern English (LModE) period (1700–1900) were a correlative of people's everyday life.

鉴于当今对委婉语的普遍偏见（参见 Arif，2015 年），本文的主题可能看起来令人尴尬且选择不当。然而，找出前几个世纪的方言口语在多大程度上与日常现实的阴暗面之一相关是有意义的。在 19 世纪下半叶之前的英国，传统方言是大多数人（下层和中产阶级）的共同语言媒介，就在“国王英语”和语言学中的系统规范之前，开始发挥主导作用。我们可以假设晚期现代英语 (LModE) 时期（1700-1900）的英语方言与人们的日常生活相关。