The book established ten parts of speech: nouns, pronouns, verbs, participles, prepositions, adverbs, interjections,
conjunctions, Gerunds and supines.
In December 2003 Representative Doug Ose(R-California) introduced a bill(H.R. 3687) to outlaw the broadcast of Carlin's"seven dirty words", including"compound use(including hyphenated compounds) of such words and phrases with each other or with other words or phrases, and other grammatical forms of such words and phrases including verb,
adjective, Gerund, participle, and infinitive forms.