
(Map courtesy Strong Language)
Jack Grieve, from the UK’s Aston University, geo-plotted the curse words used in the Lower 48 states out of 8.9 billion words from Twitter. Click the link for the full set of maps, with blue meaning infrequence use and red being more frequent.
No kidding, there was one I’d never even heard of before.
The other item of local interest is that in map after map, curse word after curse word, is how little cussing we do here in Colorado.
Which is odd, given how many Californians are on our roads nowadays.
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