Swearing helps us to be more expressive, and can even help us with pain relief and with tasks like lifting weights. People swear in five different ways: Descriptively, idiomatically, abusively, ...

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 new study shows that swear words across languages may have more in common than previously thought. Many of them tend to leave out the same sounds. There's a common trope in sci fi when characters ...

I thought I would die of shame the first time my daughter said the f-word. She was only two. I swear like a trooper, but I truly thought I had managed to not do it within earshot of her. Obviously not ...