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 ...

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A recent ad broadcast on Bend radio station 92.7 FM described a musician as “damn good.” Had that broadcast happened a generation or two ago, it may have stirred some controversy. But today, using the ...

Dancing around risky language is common for many forms of on-air media. Sitcoms and family shows have been making substitutions like "sugar" and "fudge" for expletives and curse words for quite some ...

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Byrne is the author of Swearing Is Good For You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language. Scientifically speaking, swearing is good for you. It deadens pain and enlivens our emotional discourse. We know ...