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 ...

There is nothing more tiring, and unimaginative, than people filling blank spaces in a conversation with a tirade of reflexive F-bombs. And it’s not just me. Or my imagination. Studies done on this ...

There's a common trope in sci fi when characters curse. RYAN MCKAY: I watched "Mork & Mindy" when I was growing up. CHANG: That's psychologist Ryan McKay. He's, of course, talking about a sitcom that ...