Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Australians are outdone by Americans and Brits in how often they swear and in how many users swear online. - Max Pepper/CNN Polite ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Netflix In History of Swear Words Season 1, Nicolas Cage dives deep into the taboo world of swear words. Each ...

Swearing was long dismissed as a topic of serious research because it was assumed to be simply a sign of aggression, weak language proficiency or even low intelligence. We now have quite a lot of ...

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 ...

Colino is a contributor for TIME. Colino is a contributor for TIME. Many of us try to suppress the urge to blurt out an expletive when something goes wrong. But the instinct may actually be useful: ...

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 ...

Swearing – defined as speaking “specific, negatively charged, and often emotionally loaded terms” – violates our norms of both the sacred and profane. While polite society often reflects on swearing’s ...

A new study shows that swear words across languages may have more in common than previously thought. Many of them tend to leave out the same sounds. There's a common trope in sci fi when characters ...

What would be the first word out of your mouth if you stubbed your toe or bonked your head? Most people would automatically shout out a swear word. Swearing has the power to reduce the sensation of ...