What is the current fk?
Despite all the curses hurled at every delayed subway and rat running through the trash in our city, New York itself isn’t even in the top 15 dirtiest states, according to a new study published by word wizards. in WordTips.
In fact, New York State only hit the damn list at number 17. (Seventeen!)
The researchers analyzed 1.7 million geotagged English-language tweets and calculated the proportion of posts containing swear words from X users to determine where the most outspoken speakers live.
Most shocking: New York City didn’t even make the top 50 happiest cities. Buffalo, of all places, landed at No. 23 on that list, making it the dirtiest city in the Empire State.
Meanwhile, the study determined that loud residents of Baltimore, Maryland, utter more profanity. Should Charm City be renamed Cuss City?
Those in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Atlanta, Georgia, came in second and third, respectively, followed by Detroit, Michigan, and Houston, Texas.
But, my heavens, the polite people of Lexington, Kentucky, sure have a reason to cheer: They were found to swear the least of all US cities, about the goal.
Well, bless their hearts.
Maryland topped the list of smallmouth states, followed by Louisiana and Georgia (57.4).
Overall, however, the US ranks as the smallest country in the world – hell yeah we’re number one! – with the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Canada following.
English speakers sure love a few swear words.
“It used to be that the only media you could consume was heavily edited,” Benjamin Bergen.
author of “What the F: What Profanity Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves,” told the swear masters at WordTips about the new normalization of trash talk.
“With social media, suddenly now, we have direct access to people’s informal language. If we have
access to people’s informal communication and involves more swearing, it just means we are
we will be exposed to more of it and it will normalize it, and that is how people have become
secured.”
And which curse words do Americans actually prefer?
Overall, the word “st” appears to be st with 15 states – mostly on the East Coast – using the swear word more often.
But those on the West Coast prefer a good, old-fashioned bombshell, with 13 states using it the most when they express themselves strongly.
Now, cut st – maybe New Yorkers aren’t so rude after all.
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