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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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George Carlin’s “Incomplete List of Impolite Words” is a lush repository of English’s filthiest terms and euphemisms. The late comedian rattled off profanity so fast one hardly had time to cringe ...

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 ...

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The legal system requires that people who are going to testify about what is true or not true should not be flippant or careless about their words. As a result, TV and movies depict witnesses in court ...