Swearing

Can Awl pal Jess Grose stop swearing before the birth of her child? Sure, why the fuck not.

Four Women Celebrate the Joys of Cussing Someone Out. It’s like Metropolitan Diary but for real people.

Breaking: A lot of people in the White House use bad words. A lot of people in every White House have used bad words, but now reporters are including those bad words and papers are happy to…

Is it possible that humans developed swearing as a pain-management technique? British scientists think so. “It taps into emotional brain centers and appears to arise in the right brain, whereas most language production occurs in the left cerebral hemisphere of the…