Jesse Sheidlower is the world’s expert on the F word — and that’s an expertise that requires more work than you might think. Sheidlower is editor at large of the Oxford English Dictionary, and his 270 ...

Just go ahead and say it, nobody minds anymore. Trump cursing during an interview is merely the last gasp of our media culture depleting the f-word of it’s former power. By James Hibberd ...

It’s a word that’s been gleefully co-opted by both sides of the political spectrum for their most basic rallying cries (F*** Joe Biden. F*** Trump), and it’s having a veritable heyday this week in the ...

We’ve arrived at a grim reality: Our culture is overdosing on the F word. It’s so sad to see such a good bad word dragged through the mud like this. Stripped of its zing. Its shock value. Now, it’s ...

Did It Happen Here?: Perspectives on Fascism and America, edited by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, W.W. Norton, 384 pages, $28.99 The debate about what fascism is—and whether America is standing on its ...

Swearing is not an uncommon response to pain. But does it actually reduce pain perception or pain tolerance? Yes, according to recent research, by Hostetter and colleagues, published in the April 2024 ...

The most famous four-letter word is also the most prolific. Don’t believe me? Then check out all 449 pages of editor Jesse Sheidlower’s fourth edition of “The F-Word,” a historical dictionary that is ...

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Shocking video captured a Spirit Airlines employee in a heated confrontation on the check-in line at a Florida airport that escalated to the worker shouting at the passenger, “F—k you, too!” The ...

F… U… and no need for that third and fourth letter, the point is made without. Writing the third and fourth letter changes the meaning in no way, it just adds the ...

"We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the f*** they're doing," Trump said to reporters as he left the White House. More than any other ...