Steady on, lad. None of that follows, just because you happen to have chosen to put a lot of swear words in your dictionary.
Many of the supposed new coinings are simply rude Hindi words that have been around for ages. Young British Asians were not terribly impressed. Ishaq Makda told the Leicester Mercury: "I know most of these words. But these are swear words. It's insulting for people to see them in the dictionary." Asmara Rabab agreed: "They shouldn't put them in the dictionary because a lot of them are rude. If they want some words to put in the dictionary, they should use more formal ones."
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