A little girl has left internet users in hysterics after she confused the alphabet with an expletive-laden viral pop song. Three-year-old Evie Lee Fritcher, from the United States, has become a ...

Swearing could actually be an emotional release valve and studies show that people who swear like a sailor are more honest and more intelligent. The Magazine; ... In the study, the researchers asked ...

This task requires volunteers to list as many different swear words as they can think of in one minute. By comparing scores from both the verbal and swearing fluency tasks, it was found that the ...

The English language contains an alphabet soup of swear words. Those of a sweary disposition can draw upon the A-word, the B-word, the C-word, the F-word, the S-word, the W-word and many more. So ...

Swearing may have evolved in part to help us avoid direct physical conflict, which carries a risk of injury. “In other words, I can give somebody the finger or say f – – k you across the ...

The study, led by Richard Stephens, PhD, a psychologist at Keele University in Staffordshire, England, inspired Washmuth to test the research methods on himself.“I incorporated swearing into my ...

Dr. Roache is a senior lecturer in philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, and the author of the book “For F*ck’s Sake: Why Swearing Is Shocking, Rude and Fun,” from which this ...

In 2018, Stephens and his colleagues found that, in an anaerobic power test on a bike, swearing was linked with an improvement in participant strength.However, they were unable to identify any ...

Swearing has often been associated with a lack of intelligence, but studies show that it could be a cleverer use of language than we thought. Think swearing isn’t big or clever? Think again ...