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Friday 29 June 2018

Swearing

In his letter to the Galatians, St Paul used the strongest swear word in the Greek language to denounce those who were tempting his readers to alter and/or desert the true Gospel of Christ. Paul wrote in Chapter 1:8-9: “But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!” 

The F-word was uttered for the first time on British TV by the theater critic Kenneth Tynan in 1965 on a show about the portrayal of sex on stage.

Four-letter words used by angry footballers set a problem for the GPO in the mid 1960s. Reports on bad language offences had to go by post to the FA Disciplinary Committee. To avoid embarrassing FA secretaries, the envelopes are marked "Not to be opened by females". But the secretary of the Referees' Association said many members were worried that they were open to prosecution by the GPO, which banned obscene language in letters.

In Georgia, it is illegal to use profanity in the presence of a corpse.

In the United States, people from Ohio are the most likely to use curse words.

By Threeboy from Richmond, Canada - Jay & Trey Cartoon Swearing,

The world record for the most swear words in a television program is 201 in episode one of the comedy Strutter. The 20-minute episode, averaged out to about ten expletives every minute. Produced by Objective Productions, it starred Paul Kaye as American lawyer Mike Strutter and aired on MTV on 9 November 2006. The show was canceled after just one season.

The record for highest average number of swear words per TV episode, is topped by the HBO crime show The Wire, which accumulated around 102 in every instalment. 

In the 2013 motion picture The Wolf of Wall Street starring Leonardo Di Caprio,  the f-word is used 506 times - an average of 2.81 times every minute. This means the film is the mainstream movie with the most swear words ever released.        
  
Analysis reveals that an average of roughly 80-90 words spoken each day are swear words.

For the most part, Japanese doesn't have a distinct group of curse words like other languages do.

You're not allowed to swear if playing at the Wimbledon lawn tennis championships. As such, line judges have to learn curse words in every language.

Will Smith doesn't curse in his raps because his grandma once told him not to.

Obscenities, profanities and vulgarities are all distinctly different from one another. Obscenity typically relates to sexual matters. Profanity relates to religious matters like blasphemy. Vulgarity is coarse language.

According to Australian Geographic, pet birds like parrots and cockatoos that have escaped from captivity are inadvertently teaching wild birds the swear words they learned at home.

Over 90% of the last word spoken by an airplane pilot just before the crash is, "s---".

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