The history of swearing and naughty words

Ladies and Gentlemen, in this segment, we’re going to be learning the history behind some naughty words. While we’re going to try to avoid using the words themselves, it might be worth keeping the young’ns out of earshot.

Teenagers, time to turn it up.

Swearing is as quintessentially Australian as meat pies and cold beer. But where do these words originate and has the current crop of swear words lost their “oomph”?