What do they bloody know?

I note in Brewers Dictionary of Phrase and Fable:

Bloody Bill, The. Better known as the Act of the Sizx Articles (31 Henry VIII, c14), it made denial of transubstantiation a heresy punishable by death.

Like most (not quite all) taboo words it's weakened very significantly in the last generation in England. At one timne it counted as quite strong, God know's why - in fact the replacement word "Blooming" was coined. Like Heck for Hell, and Goldarn for Goddamn (did anyone evwery say that or was it just coined for storiues about cowboys?)

Oddly enough "bleeding" was not seen as quite as strong. There's no logic to this kind of thing. Which is what makes it all quite fun. A language where all the taboo words have become routine would in my view lack something. "If the salt should lose its savour..." There was a thread about this kind of thing recently