<ul><li>Swearing helps mitigate pain. </li><li>Those who speak more than one language, report that swearing in their first language carries a bigger emotional punch.</li><li>A few blue words, uttered in a good-natured way, indicates and encourages intimacy.</li><li>A recent study suggests that people who swear are perceived as more trustworthy.</li></ul>

Swearing benefits

By definition, swear words are offensive.  If a word, over time, ceases to be offensive, then it falls out of use as a swear word.<br><p>We will often use swear words to vent some emotion. Swearing also centers on taboos. Around the world, swear words will tend to cluster around certain topics: lavatorial matters, sex, religion.</p>

Swear words

The English language contains an alphabet soup of swear words. Those of a sweary disposition can draw upon the A-word, the B-word, the C-word, the F-word, the S-word, the W-word and many more. So here's a puzzle - if you see the F-word spelled out with all four letters, are you more offended than when you read F with asterisks?

Swear words

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