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Bloody is a common swear word that is considered to be milder and less offensive than other, more visceral alternatives. In 1994, it was the most commonly spoken swear word, accounting for around 650 of every million words said in the UK – 0.064 per cent.

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“Bloody” is no longer Britain’s most commonly used swear word, while the number of uttered expletives has dropped by more than a quarter in 20 years, a study has found. Bloody is a common swear word that is considered to be milder and less offensive than other, more visceral alternatives. In 1994, it was the most commonly spoken swear word, accounting for around 650 of every million words said in the UK – 0.064 per cent. In second place was f---, at more than 550 per million, and s--- was the third most rife, at around 150 per million. Dr Robbie Love, of Aston University, analysed transcribed spoken conversations which took place in 1994 and 2014 and analysed the changing preference of 16 swear words. The words themselves, as well as associated derivatives, were all included. For example, for “s---”, if it was prefixed with “ape”, “dog”, “bat”, “dip”, “pig” or “bull” it was included in the analysis. So too were “gobs---e”, “s----hot”, “s---house”, “s---hole” and “s---storm”. “Swearing peaks among young adults and declines as you go up the age groups,” Dr Love told The Telegraph. “The peak isn’t as high as it was before – so on average they start at a lower rate. “But the decline is less severe than it was – i.e. younger adult generations appear to keep swearing a bit more for longer, spreading out the (lower) rate of swearing a bit later through adulthood. “This may well relate to the fact that on average people wait a bit longer than they did to have children – and we know that many adults reduce swearing substantially around children.”

Younger people are swearing less

The fall in popularity of “bloody” is also likely related to the shifting age dynamic, because not only are younger people swearing less than in the Nineties, but “bloody” is no longer a staple curse and is more common in older age groups, who swear less overall. “There is a mild age effect whereby on average ‘bloody’ rises throughout the age groups,” said Dr Love. “This is usually indicative of a word decreasing in usage over time. But it is not the case that ‘bloody’ is exclusively an ‘old person’ word. There are still plenty of younger people who use it – just a bit less so – on average. “‘F---’ has been building momentum throughout the last few decades. I think it is popular because it is so versatile – it can be used as several different word classes and in several different syntactic positions. It also appears to have weakened and generalised semantically – yes, it can refer to sex – but it can also be used for general intensification or as a general exclamative.” The research, published in Text & Talk: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language, Discourse & Communication Studies, is based on two editions of the Spoken British National Corpus. These are two large bodies of transcriptions of casual British English conversation in which normal conversations among the public were recorded and transcribed. Together, these include over 15 million words and swear words make up less than one per cent of the entries.

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