Standing in a crowded elevator recently, I was privy to a conversation going on between two college students in front of me. The young women were casually chatting about their day while repeatedly ...

Author John McWhorter's new book Nine Nasty Words delves into the history and meaning of English profanity, as well as the political differences that often influence those meanings. John McWhorter is ...

The rhetorical shift started in the 1990s, when Gen X was coming of age – and based on evidence from social media posts, Gen Z is more likely to be accepting of profanity use than their older peers ...

YouTube's content guidelines are generally fair, but a few rules go a bit overboard in the name of ad revenue. There was a time when creators cowered away from cussing at all in their videos for fear ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Middle-school kids who hear swear words on TV or in video games may act more aggressively toward their peers, physically or otherwise, a small study suggests. The findings, ...

Editor's note: This story contains profanity. Sort of. Though we used punctuation in place of most letters and even rhyming words for clues so you'll probably be able to figure out the swear words we ...

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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 ...

A video wouldn't be eligible to run ads if there was swearing in the first 15 seconds. (Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) After pushback from the creator ...

After 13 years of teaching psychology courses, I banned a word for the first time. A word that is interfering with students ability to communicate about human behavior. You might assume the word is ...

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After 13 years of teaching psychology courses, I banned a word for the first time. A word that is interfering with students ability to communicate about human behavior. You might assume the word is ...