Dax Shepard has some unorthodox rules when it comes to his and Kristen Bell’s kids using curse words. “I fully swear in front ...

What’s been less well explored is which sounds don’t wind up in curses—which ones soften the sound of a word so that it can’t pack the angry, cathartic power that common curse words do ...

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 ...

We played them to 215 speakers of a variety of languages (Arabic, Chinese, Finnish, French, German, and Spanish). Their task was to guess which of the two pseudo-words was a swear word.