How directors and writers striving for a PG-13 rating have learned to ration the use of a four-letter obscenity.

We’ve arrived at a grim reality: Our culture is overdosing on the F word. It’s so sad to see such a good bad word dragged through the mud like this. Stripped of its zing. Its shock value. Now, it’s ...

Just go ahead and say it, nobody minds anymore. Trump cursing during an interview is merely the last gasp of our media culture depleting the f-word of it’s former power. By James Hibberd ...

Jesse Sheidlower is the world’s expert on the F word — and that’s an expertise that requires more work than you might think. Sheidlower is editor at large of the Oxford English Dictionary, and his 270 ...

It’s a word that’s been gleefully co-opted by both sides of the political spectrum for their most basic rallying cries (F*** Joe Biden. F*** Trump), and it’s having a veritable heyday this week in the ...

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Britons may have a love for swearing, but when it comes to our rivals we're far less prolific and creative, a new foul–mouthed study reveals. Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland have ...

Swearing is not an uncommon response to pain. But does it actually reduce pain perception or pain tolerance? Yes, according to recent research, by Hostetter and colleagues, published in the April 2024 ...

Shocking video captured a Spirit Airlines employee in a heated confrontation on the check-in line at a Florida airport that escalated to the worker shouting at the passenger, “F—k you, too!” The ...