MEN’S BAD LANGUAGE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 9, 1 April 1927, Page 3

MEN’S BAD LANGUAGE

OFTEN TERPyi OF AFFECTION At the instance of a nursing institution in London an injunction has been granted restraining a Fulham baker from carrying on his bakery there so as to cause a nuisance by noise to the nurses in the nursing home. Giving judgment, Mr. Justice Eve said it was alleged and denied that strong language was used in the bakehouse. He hoped he did not move among persons who were accustomed to use bad language to excess, but he did not believe that any congregation of men—unless a Christian association —working at night in a place the temperature of which was over 80 deg., in circumstances when they were likely to burn their fingers and experience other conveniences would not occasionally make use of strong language. One had only to listen to any body of working men engaged in any undertaking to learn that there were certain adjectives which were applicable to almost every animate and inanimate need —not necessarily used as a term of reproach, but often as a term of affection. (Laughter.) The injunction was suspended for three months to give the baker time to effect structural alterations.