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 ...

Dagnabit, I just love cursing. It relieves stress and feels good. Polite society has considered the use of vulgar language to be associated with low intellect, but studies are showing the opposite.

Two of curling’s best men’s teams, Sweden and Canada, involved in fiery and controversial match at Winter Olympics.

Netflix's new comedy series "History of Swear Words" is cheerfully profane and profanely cheerful. Experts and celebrities spend each of the six 20-minute episodes saying the "bad" word of the moment ...

“Holy motherforking shirtballs!” a character exclaimed on “The Good Place,” a television show that took place in a version of the afterlife where swearing is forbidden (as it is in The New York Times, ...

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 ...

Odds are good that if you checked out “History of Swear Words” within the last week, it was to see Nicolas Cage drop a few of those words as only he can. The Netflix show, hosted by Cage in his own ...