There's so much concern about crude language today particularly when it's directed at the female species. So much so that the Harvard men's soccer scheduled was canceled for the rest of the season over some language the men's team used to discuss players on the school's female soccer team.
Harvard's president, a female, promptly expressed her PC shock and canceled the rest of the men's season. Now we're sure the president, good academician she is, appreciated studies.So this one is for you, sweetheart, and your purist academic-trained mind.
A unique survey of the swearing habits of men and women over the past 20 years has revealed that not only is the English language constantly discovering new ways to be rude, but women are using the f-word more often than men.
With the help of 376 volunteers who submitted recordings of up to three hours of their daily conversations, British researchers have amassed a language database of 10m words. Half of them have been transcribed so far.
The full results will not be published until 2018, but the most striking conclusions so far confirm that men are no longer the champs when it comes to.....
thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/the-swearer-sex-women-use-f-word-more-than-men-kd87fmspc
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