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Word queen Susie Dent creating birthday cards using ancient English insults

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TV word queen Susie Dent has been 'Sarding' busy helping to create a range of birthday cards - featuring ancient English insults.

The lexicographer has dug through historical dictionary archives to unearth rude terms - from the Shakespearean version of the 'F word' to the Victorian slang for a 'drunkard'.

Moonpig has transformed Susie's newfound jibes into a new line of birthday cards to celebrate September, the most common birth month in England and Wales - nine months after Christmas.

The new (old) swear words include Sard. Susie said: "If you really want to give your message the full whack, why not opt for the Shakespearean version of the F word? 'Sard', from the 15th century, it is defined in the dictionary as 'to know carnally'." But

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