Talk:Thomas Bowdler

message: I'm sure the answer is no, but is there an antonym to "Bowdlerize" (i.e., a word that means somebody intentionally inserting offensive words or phrases into somebody else's work)? Jeff Silvers 08:25, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Antonym? 

message: From the introduction - "For example replacing the word "f***" with "the f-word"".  Although this is arguably mere censorship or euphemism rather than bowdlerization, I don't think that doing it twice in the same sentence is really necessary.  Shall we have the more illustrative "...replacing the word "fuck" with "the f-word"" instead? Tevildo 17:36, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Aye. WP:NOT censored. —Nightstallion (?) 22:34, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The F-Word 

message: Under this heading there is currently only one example, and it is not particularly illustrative of the changes Bowdler made. Does anyone know where to find some better examples?--Shantavira 13:50, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Added the change to Macbeth.
Are there any more examples that could be added? I know it's been 12 years since this comment was posted, but Bowdler did a lot more of interest than the couple things listed. Kkukucka (talk) 23:30, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Changes to Shakespeare

message: How is the verb pronounced? Neither this article nor the wikitionary entry on the word discusses pronounciation, and I'm curious and unsure. -Fsotrain09 04:18, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Added pronunciation of the name. Pronunciation of the verb ought to follow straightforwardly from the name. Vilĉjo 21:53, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronounciation of the Verb? 

message: I removed the following section, as it doesn't relate to Bowdler:
==Famous Bowdlerised quotes==
*John Nance Garner- "[The Vice Presidency] is not worth a pitcher of warm piss." ("Piss" is often replaced with "spit.")
*Lyndon Johnson- "[Gerald Ford] is too stupid to fart and chew gum at the same time." ("fart" often replaced with "walk")
jnestorius(talk) 00:31, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  removed bowdlerization examples 

message: I believe the Algernon Swinburne quote may be facetious check his bio. Datacharge 15:32, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Nope. Swinburne read Bowdler's edition as a child, and was a respected literary critic.  The source of the quote is  "Studies in Prose and Poetry" (1894), chapter "Social verse"; I can't find an online copy.  jnestorius(talk) 23:30, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Algernon Swinburne quote  

message: This article contains an error I wish someone would change.  Bowlder hardly wrote to please a Victorian audience.  He published his edition of Shakespeare twenty years before Victoria came to the throne.  She wasn't even recognized as a potential heir to the throne at the time.  The Regency era was not as stuffy as the Victorian era, as a general statement - but the Regency era had its own stuffy individuals and the Victorian era its own pornographers.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.170.177.181 (talk) 14:46, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not Victorian 

message: The generally accepted pronunciation is that 'Bow' conforms as for the 'bow' of a ship, or 'bough' of a tree. But, quis custodet ipso custodes! Miletus (talk) 10:36, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  pronunciation of name (or verb) 

message: As a page about a British citizen, the page should be primarily written in British English per WP:ENGVAR. I've left the primarily American spelling (as pointed out in numerous edit summaries, it's also British English acceptable) but re-added the primary British English spelling in the lede as an alternative. Porphyro (talk) 22:59, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Bowdlerise