As an elementary teacher, my mother could string together colorful phrases using the names of fourth-grade art supplies, just to avoid a “swear word.” She had strict rules on what was allowed to be ...

While some might discourage using swear words when you're frustrated or in pain, one study has found that swearing is good ...

Linguists have noticed that many swear words share the same sharp, punchy sounds—hard consonants like “k,” “t,” and “g” that burst out of the mouth rather than flow. When a study examined those sound ...

Swearing enhances the performance of physical challenges, according to a study by a laboratory’s worth of scientists in the ...

The coarsest language is no longer a breach of decorum. Increasingly, it is a credential. The common assumption behind all ...

If you have ever frozen mid sentence because a word slipped out of reach you know the weird mix of frustration that hits in ...

With 'ragebait' the Oxford English Dictionary word of the year, here's a look at what footballing equivalents might have been ...

In the classic South Park episode "It Hits the Fan," the show takes aim at TV censorship, highlighting the absurdity of ...

That's exactly what one of Jennifer Barrett's clients decided to do. In a now viral video shared to her Instagram, Barrett — ...

Scientific studies claim that modern music has become simpler than ever before, both lyrically and musically. But are they ...

When you work with footballers nothing much surprises you. Finding spent machine gun bullets in the garden of one of your ...