Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It is true, as Mark Twain said, that “under certain circumstances, profanity provides relief denied even to prayer.” We all have ...

What's in a swear? The world's filthiest words typically refer to something vulgar or taboo, for one. But there's something else swears across the world's languages have in common. They're all missing ...

A persistent cultural myth suggests that individuals who swear frequently do so because they lack the vocabulary to express ...

There is nothing more tiring, and unimaginative, than people filling blank spaces in a conversation with a tirade of reflexive F-bombs. And it’s not just me. Or my imagination. Studies done on this ...

George Carlin’s “Incomplete List of Impolite Words” is a lush repository of English’s filthiest terms and euphemisms. The late comedian rattled off profanity so fast one hardly had time to cringe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Linguists have appealed for the public’s help across the UK in creating a national list of regional swear words. Experts at ...

The UK’s first ever national swear word census has been launched to capture an 'honest' picture of how people really speak. Words such as ‘clarty’ meaning dirty or sticky, ‘nesh’ for those sensitive ...