We’ve arrived at a grim reality: Our culture is overdosing on the F word. It’s so sad to see such a good bad word dragged through the mud like this. Stripped of its zing. Its shock value. Now, it’s ...

Jesse Sheidlower is the world’s expert on the F word — and that’s an expertise that requires more work than you might think. Sheidlower is editor at large of the Oxford English Dictionary, and his 270 ...

In a splashy scene in Elizabeth Gilbert’s frothy, best-selling new novel, City of Girls, Peg Buell—a grande dame theater owner in the 1940s—shouts at her trusty secretary: “Goddamn it, Olive—how much ...

It’s a word that’s been gleefully co-opted by both sides of the political spectrum for their most basic rallying cries (F*** Joe Biden. F*** Trump), and it’s having a veritable heyday this week in the ...

MADISON - Just one member of Congress uses the F-word more than two Wisconsin lawmakers, according to a new review of how often politicians use the expletive in their public social media posts.

The word on the truck made me wonder: Are we overusing America’s favorite profanity? If we aren’t careful, the F-word could become a victim of its own popularity. It could lose its punch. What a loss.

The king of all curse words, survivor of overuse by earlier generations, loses shock value with each new utterance The F-Bomb: Called such because of its ability to shock, the more acceptable way of ...

Just go ahead and say it, nobody minds anymore. Trump cursing during an interview is merely the last gasp of our media culture depleting the f-word of it’s former power. By James Hibberd ...

When I was growing up, the rudest and most unacceptable word you could say was the f-word. I didn’t know what two times meant. I was 7. But I assumed, with the logic of a 7-year-old, that two times ...

Dropping F-bombs can possibly help increase a person's pain threshold, research has shown -- and, according to a follow-up pain management experiment, using made-up swear words doesn't quite garner ...

Opinion Endless F-words have come to dominate streaming media By Melissa Henson March 18, 2023 01:08 AM Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Email Print Opinion Endless F-words have come to dominate streaming ...