A swear word is like a linguistic punch in the nose. Virtually every language and culture has them—and virtually every language and culture formally disapproves of them. But that doesn’t stop them ...

Linguists at Russia’s Academy of Sciences are calling for the protection of curse words after the head of the Russian ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a writer, I often think about the use of profanity. Writing two middle-grade series has increasingly required me to consider the use of language: When is it okay, or not, for my young characters to ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Middle-school kids who hear swear words on TV or in video games may act more aggressively toward their peers, physically or otherwise, a small study suggests. The findings, ...

After 13 years of teaching psychology courses, I banned a word for the first time. A word that is interfering with students ability to communicate about human behavior. You might assume the word is ...

My daughter’s teacher uses curse words in his teaching. She thinks he does it to impress the students. She doesn’t like it and neither do I. What can I do? A hallmark of the stereotypical “cool” ...