Posted on 5/2/2020 by Charles R. Bernard I spent my childhood in Bountiful, Utah, a small suburb of Salt Lake City. Nestled in the craggy bosom of the Wasatch Mountains, Bountiful (during the years when I lived there) was an intensely and devoutly Mormon place. My family isn’t Mormon, but as I grew up it was impossible not to absorb a great deal of the ambient culture of the place – including the peculiarly fastidious and fussy attitude the Mormon Church cultivates regarding words. Now, we’re not talking “expand your vocabulary” words here, although there is evidence that Mormons as a population are better-educated (and, I suppose, one would assume better-spoken) than average Americans, and that tracks with my own anecdotal experience. Vocabulary aside, however, I’m referring here to their attitude regarding swearing, obscenity, indeed, even words that a devout Evangelical or Catholic might be able to say without blushing. Mormons hate swearing.