Answer: Swear
Clues: “Obscene” and “Cuss”
Confirmed: Americans are the world’s most prolific swearers
A study last year found America swears more than any other country.
Researchers in Australia analyzed almost two million web pages from 340,000 sites, over 1.7 billion total words, and they found the U.S. leads all other English-speaking nations in online cussin’.
Around 1 in every 3,000 words we write is a curse word. The U.K. is next at 1 in every 4,200 words. Then Australia at 1 in every 4,500.
They went pretty broad with what counts as “swearing.” The 597 words they scanned for included everything from the F-bomb to more benign things like “jerk” and “crap.”
(Phys / Popular Science)