<P> Bloody has always been a very common part of Australian speech and has not been considered profane there for some time . The word was dubbed "the Australian adjective" by The Bulletin on 18 August 1894 . One Australian performer, Kevin Bloody Wilson, has even made it his middle name . Also in Australia, the word bloody is frequently used as a verbal hyphen, or infix, correctly called tmesis as in "fanbloodytastic". In the 1940s an Australian divorce court judge held that "the word bloody is so common in modern parlance that it is not regarded as swearing". Meanwhile, Neville Chamberlain's government was fining Britons for using the word in public . </P> <P> The word as an expletive is seldom used in the United States of America . In the US the term is usually used when the intention is to mimic an Englishman . Because it is not perceived as profane in American English, "bloody" is generally not censored when used in American television and film, for example in the 1961 film The Guns of Navarone the actor Richard Harris at one point says: "You can't even see the bloody cave, let alone the bloody guns . And anyway, we haven't got a bloody bomb big enough to smash that bloody rock ..." - but bloody was replaced with ruddy for British audiences of the time . </P> <P> The term is used somewhat frequently in Canada, especially in the provinces of Ontario and Newfoundland . Younger Canadians generally do not consider the term to be offensive; however, older Canadians of British origin might . </P> <P> In Singapore, the word bloody is commonly used as a mild expletive in Singapore's colloquial English . The roots of this expletive derives from the influence and informal language British officers used during the dealing and training of soldiers in the Singapore Volunteer Corps and the early days of the Singapore Armed Forces . When more Singaporeans were promoted officers within the Armed Forces, most new local officers applied similar training methods their former British officers had when they were cadets or trainees themselves . This includes some aspects of British Army lingo, like "bloody (something)". When the newly elected Singapore government implemented compulsory conscription, all 18 year old able bodied Singapore males had to undergo training within the Armed Forces . When National servicemen completed their service term, some brought the many expletives they picked up during their service into the civilian world and thus became a part of the common culture in the city state . The word' bloody' also managed to spread to the north in neighbouring Malaysia, to where the influence of Singapore English has spread . The use of' bloody' as a substitute for more explicit language increased with the popularity of British and Australian films and television shows aired on local television programmes . The term bloody in Singapore may not be considered explicit, but its usage is frowned upon in formal settings . </P>

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