I was reasonably confident of my ground, cuntwise, largely as a consequence of a charismatic, liberal and rugby-addicted French teacher in secondary school. He knew and was happy to share with his students a wide vocabulary of pardon-my-French epithets that he had picked up on the touchline.

We had a French exchange student teacher, who spent one lesson teaching us some of the more 'interesting' and 'useful' parts of the language.

How to say 'strike'?