Yeah, they definitely are.
It’s most Glaswegians’ first word.
You know, if someone calls you a berk, they’re calling you a cunt.
Dunno. Always used it a lot, always been round people who use it a lot.
I’m with him
the cunt
Don’t think I’ve ever said it out loud
I genuinely believe John Lydon calling an ITV audience of millions “fucking cunts” in 2004 opened the floodgates to the word being more widely used.
nothing funnier than tv presenters getting panicked/flustered after someone curses. bellends
They’re not really though, are they.
they probably don’t realise it. Berk is shortened from ‘Berkley Hunt’, in rhyming slang.
QI klaxon
Probably. Though have always been around people who use it a lot.
We definitely don’t use it as much as Aussies though. One of my Aussie mates regularly just describes his dad as a cunt (“going to meet the old cunt for a beer”) and has on a few occasions accidentally used the word “cunt” to replace a completely different word in a story and immediately had to correct himself because it made no sense.
I know the etymology. But no one actually uses the words interchangeably, do they? Your daft mate is a berk. Nigel Farrage is a cunt. Different things.
Yeah, I guess it’s just evolved that way
Yes I would Kent
They use it more now than in the recent past, but less than in pre-victorian times, I would think, when the word was quite common, and streets were named such things as ‘Gropecunt Lane’.
Bcos that was the lane where C*** was groped?
Yup. It was a common name for a street with brothels on it.
Here we go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane
