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 ...

Swearing aloud is associated with improvements in exercise performance, including cycling power and hand-grip strength. A study in a 2022 issue of the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology even ...

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 ...

These four sounds are missing from some of the seven words you can never say on television, and the pattern prevails in other languages too, researchers say. By Elizabeth Preston “Holy motherforking ...

U.S. Parents More Relaxed About Their Kids Using Swear Words, Poll Finds By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterTUESDAY, Jan. 20, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Who says the president of the United States ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. GRAHAM, N.C. (WGHP) — The ...

Dancing around risky language is common for many forms of on-air media. Sitcoms and family shows have been making substitutions like "sugar" and "fudge" for expletives and curse words for quite some ...