FTA: @ivacheung.com asks "What in the very specific fuck?" stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/01/29/w...

With apologies, but... Shite Christmas

"Even as the F-word has proliferated on smaller screens, a rule from the 1980s that limits its use in PG-13 movies has endured, influencing the way some filmmakers write, shoot and edit." | cc @stronglang.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I’m listening

FTA: @fritinancy.bsky.social talks about fcuking branding stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/01/27/w...

Swearing makes you stronger! Richard Stevens (of the "swearing makes you more resistant to pain" study) is back, with a study showing that swearing helps you release your inhibitions and give it your all. Attn @stronglang.bsky.social psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

you should be allowed tell one person to fuck off each day without them getting mad

FTA: A guest post from Karyl Krug. FUBAR? FIGMO. Fox Oscar. stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/01/15/i...

A colloquial Russian equivalent to “mind your own business” is тебя не ебут, ты не подмахивай. It means “you’re not getting fucked, so don’t wiggle your ass.”

bank statement..Jaysis. If I ever go for a loan, I’ll have some job explaining that’s a charity shop and nothing more..

FTA: @mashedradish.bsky.social tells us what it sounds like when fucks fly stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/01/13/w...

STILL NOT SURE if I can somehow wear this to last work day before Christmas

Swearing & Christmas, there's no better combo 🤬🙃 Join us for the last ISLE Online forum of the year with Kate Burridge, Kristy Beers Fägersten & Karyn Stapleton on Friday (Dec 12), 10am CET. Zoom link available here: www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/o... #ISLE #EnglishLinguistics #Linguistics

FTA: A decade ago, @fritinancy.bsky.social looked back at a sweary good year stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/01/09/a...

How would you define the difference between bullshit and horseshit?

My interest in (1) tennis and, unrelatedly, (2) the linguistics of profanity means that just now when I saw the phrase "WTA RG F" my brain briefly decided that it meant "what the actual Roland-Garros fuck"

The term "circlejerk" has picked up an interesting new figurative meaning in the names of subreddits, meaning something similar to "shitposting". So for example r/vexillologycirclejerk, is full of dumb memes and jokes about flags.

FTA: A real circle-jerk from @sesquiotic.bsky.social stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/01/07/c...

Why spend your morning getting anything productive done when you too could be going through the Official Ofcom Guide to Bad Words? (Warning, of course, for bad language.) @stronglang.bsky.social www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r...

Melissa Mohr's "Holy Sh*t" and Geoffrey Hughes's "Encyclopedia of Swearing" are great. Hughes's "Swearing: A Social History…" has rich detail but not modern. Rob Chirico's "Damn!" covers the US, and Ben Bergen's "What the F" addresses recent shifts from a cog-sci pov

While we're here, do you know of any well researched books on the history of profane/uncouth language? I'm especially interested in the recent (last 50 years) changes that have happened in taboo language.

can bluesky please stop hiding replies just because they have bad words in them? i'm a grownup, i can read the word "fuck"

See also www.theallusionist.org/lexicat1 by @allusionistshow.bsky.social

Every time I walk past this cafe on Bethnal Green Road I think it embodies all the ways modern London annoys me

@stronglang.bsky.social Can it be true?

Alternatively, you can give a shift. @stronglang.bsky.social

My 7 year old just reached for a piece of pizza fresh out of the oven and exclaimed, in the same tone as an adult swearing… “English folklore, that’s hot!” I choked laughing ENGLISH FOLKLORE AS A SWEAR? WHO ARE YOU?!?

I've been referred to in print as a "cunt" by people I'd praised. The first time was by John Huston. We'd been friends and I'd defended him for years. But I wrote that NIGHT OF THE IGUANA was a lousy movie. So he called me a "cunt" to an interviewer. (1989)

"Is it even possible, linguistically, to 'give an e.l.f.'? Or a fuck?" @fritinancy.bsky.social reports on a new, swear-adjacent marketing campaign: stronglang.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/d...

Added a new example of fucking ambiguity to my @stronglang.bsky.social post stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/05/13/f...

Reposting with alt text

"Clusterbleep". Not its first use, but a notable one from an Irish politician www.thejournal.ie/barry-cowen-...

My advice to would-be prescriptivists: • Choose your battles. • Don’t pick all the most classist “well, if you spoke Greek, you’d know this” battles. • Know what you’re talking about before you talk about it.

FTA: @stancarey.bsky.social minds the bollocks stronglang.wordpress.com/2016/01/06/n...

FTA: @gretchenmcc.bsky.social on unfixable outbursts stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/12/27/a...

FTA: @markpetersjokes.bsky.social on what kind of bullshit this fuckery is stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/12/14/a...

It's all kicking off in Stourbridge www.bbc.com/news/article...

As someone who grew up with "Zounds!" and other bizarre minced oaths, I can't tell you how pleasing it was to see "Odds bods!" (a euphemism for "God's body") in a comic book yesterday

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

dyke #etymology #wordorigins #language

For instance: 1963 K. Waterhouse Jubb (1966) 138: Bloody sodding hellfire Jesus Christ All-hopping Mighty!

GDoS has examples for these (less fuck + variants): bally, bastard, bitch, blanky, blasted, bleeding, blessed, bloody, blooming, bully, by-god, damn, flaming, freaking, fricking, frigging, god-damn, hell-fired, hopping, like, motherfucker, motherfucking, raasclat, rotten, ruddy, shagging.

FTA: @gretchenmcc.bsky.social on why you absoshitheadlutely cannot use just any swear as an infix stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/12/14/a...

Attention @stronglang.bsky.social

omfg

OK I get it it's a public-facing article etc etc, but "researchers now argue the ‘power’ of taboo words has been overlooked"?! @stronglang.bsky.social has been around since, what, 2014, full of researchers, linguists and lexicographers discussing the power of swearing. Kate has been publishing and

...so enjoy instead my 2022 @stronglang.bsky.social post on merkins: stronglang.wordpress.com/2022/03/24/t...

Sono tutte cavolate! italianwithantonio.com/p/cavolo-the... CC @stronglang.bsky.social