In most people, language is generated on the left side of the brain — the half associated with logic, motor functions and math. But when we let loose with a particularly satisfying swear word, the ...

It has been a long damn year. But you know what studies show may help ease your pain? Swearing. In this era of endless squabbling over what is or is not offensive, a corner of academia has been ...

It is true, as Mark Twain said, that “under certain circumstances, profanity provides relief denied even to prayer.” We all have our favorite cuss words on hand for stubbed toes, moments of ...

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 ...

Gregory Lawrence (aka Greg Smith) is a writer, director, performer, songwriter, and comedian. He's an associate editor for Collider and has written for Shudder, CBS, Paste Magazine, Guff, Smosh, Obsev ...

Wordle fans continue to play the once-a-day word guessing game and post their results to social media every day, and one thing I've noticed is the question that we've explored a couple of times now.

Each 20-minute episode of Netflix‘s unscripted comedy series “History of Swear Words” explores the origins of a beloved expletive, five of which the streamer won’t spell out, four of which we can’t ...

Cybernews recently analyzed 15,212,645,925 passwords to find the most popular trends in 2025 so far. Unsurprisingly, they found that people like to use swear words in their passwords (maybe because we ...

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 ...

It is true, as Mark Twain said, that “under certain circumstances, profanity provides relief denied even to prayer.” We all have our favorite cuss words on hand for stubbed toes, moments of ...