Profanity, the use of offensive and rude words, is naturally a controversial topic. There is some debate about what profanity reveals about a person’s character, more specifically, whether it is a ...

As a linguist, the study of words is par for the course. While words like zoombombing and finna may attract a lot of notice in terms of what’s timely or trending, some words, like the f-word or ...

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