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201 ways to say ‘fuck’: what 1.7 billion words of online text shows about how the world swears

By Martin Schweinberger, Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, The University of Queensland
Kate Burridge, Professor of Linguistics, Monash University

Australians are outdone by Americans and Brits, both in how often they swear, and in how many users swear online.

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