{"id":3790,"date":"2025-12-10T15:28:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/10\/americans-are-more-sweary-than-brits-and-australians\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T15:28:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:28:25","slug":"americans-are-more-sweary-than-brits-and-australians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/10\/americans-are-more-sweary-than-brits-and-australians\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans are more sweary than Brits and Australians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-12-10 15:28:24<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Americans out-swear both Brits and Australians \u2014 though they\u2019re nowhere near as creative with expletives as the Aussies.<BR><br \/>\nResearchers at the University of Eastern Finland sifted through an eye-watering 7.8 billion words posted on X between 2006 and 2023, all from users in the US, UK and Australia. <BR><br \/>\nTheir mission? To analyse one word only: the f-word, the crown jewel of global profanity.<BR><br \/>\nThey concluded that Americans drop &#8220;f***&#8221; the most, with Brits coming in second and Australians a surprisingly distant third.<BR><br \/>\nThe experts said: &#8220;The low frequency of f*** in the Australian data are surprising, as Australians are often perceived as prolific swearers. <BR><br \/>\n&#8220;And swearing in public domains in the USA has been argued to be less tolerated than in Australia.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nBut there\u2019s a twist &#8211; Aussies use the most imaginative variants, from mother**** to fark and the Irish-inspired feck.<BR><br \/>\nStudy lead Mikko Laitinen said the team uncovered &#8220;over 2,300 different spellings of the f-word&#8221;. adding that &#8220;people\u2019s creativity is nearly endless&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nThe researchers suggest that online swearing isn\u2019t simply about anger \u2014 it\u2019s part of the social glue binding people together.<BR><br \/>\nThey explained: &#8220;Swearing fulfils various communicative functions, the most prototypical expressing the speaker&#8217;s negative emotions, especially anger, where swearing functions as a stress release. <BR><br \/>\n&#8220;However, the emotions portrayed can also be positive, such as s*** when expressing surprise in response to positive news. <BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Swearing can also create humorous and playful effects, or it can be used for verbal emphasis, as in, &#8216;That meal was f****** fantastic!'&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-12-10 15:28:24 Americans out-swear both Brits and Australians \u2014 though they\u2019re nowhere near as creative with expletives as the Aussies. Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland sifted through an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3791,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790\/revisions\/3791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}