World Cup referees learning English swear words RUSTENBURG, South Africa — The Brazilian referee and his assistants who will work the England-United States match at the World Cup have been studying ...

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 ...

Nowadays, it's impossible to go through a day without hearing someone swear. Well, the Korean lecturer in this amusing video believes in teaching English swear words not so his students can use them ...

Four-letter words are all well and good, but they're a bit tired, and lack that, well, sparkle. Isn't it time you used something more spectacularly, historically offensive to demonstrate your shock, ...

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As UK communications regulator Ofcom's ranking of every bollocking swear word in the English language in order of offensiveness goes viral again, we're bloody buggering thrilled about it. So, let's ...

As a society, we like to swear. Swear words have a strange power over us. It starts when we are young, when they are deliciously taboo. Then, as we age, our dependence on swear words increases to the ...

Some curse words are pretty profane, which makes them self explanatory. But sometimes when you're translating swear words from other countries and different languages, something gets lost in ...

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Byrne is the author of Swearing Is Good For You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language. Scientifically speaking, swearing is good for you. It deadens pain and enlivens our emotional discourse. We know ...