A recent highlight saw singer Billie Eilish coming up against British swear words and terms like “chip butty” during a promo tour for her new album. “You guys are not real,” she told ...

Timothy Jay, professor emeritus of psychology at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Why do we call forbidden terms ...

Business Insider spoke to Philip Gooden, author and expert on the origins of the English language, about how society determines what makes swear words offensive and how their connotations can ...

Business Insider UK spoke to Richard Stephens, author of the book "Black Sheep: The Hidden Benefits of Being Bad" and psychologist at Keele University, about how knowing a lot of swear words can ...

says research from the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC). The body, which gives age ratings to films, says about a third of people in the UK are more likely to use strong swear words ...

For many readers of The Local - even those who are very confident in their language skills and have been here for decades - it is simply more natural to use English swear words. Wendy Poinsot in ...