Unsurprisingly, they found that people like to use swear words in their passwords (maybe because we have to make so f*cking many of them and they all have to be so f*cking complicated).

A mathematician has created an entirely new curse word based on a list of 186 offensive terms - and she said it is 'the world's ultimate swear word. Sophie Maclean, a student at Kings College ...

To understand how swear words change over time, here’s a brief history lesson. In medieval England, lots of the four-letter words we use to talk about bodies and sex were considered normal ...

Apple's upcoming iOS 17 iPhone software will stop autocorrecting swear words, thanks to new machine learning technology, the company announced at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday.

But what phonemes and linguistic elements give a swear word that quintessential gut-punch feeling? A study published today in the journal Psychonomic Bulletin & Review offers findings on one ...

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 ...

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 ...

Whatever the explanation, it goes beyond taboos and social norms. There’s something unique to swear words in our language. Rebecca Roache is a senior lecturer in philosophy at Royal Holloway ...

In these languages, they didn’t find the harsh-sounding stop consonants that seem common in English swear words. “Instead, we found patterns that none of us expected,” Dr. Lev-Ari said.