The 1980s group, 2 Live Crew, made everyone sound like they were just writing the encore for the school play and Lil' Jon (see below) holds a Guinness World Record with 295 cusses in just one song: 2004's "Real N----- Roll Call," with Ice Cube.
His 1938 cover of Louis Armstrong's “Old Man Moses,” with Patricia Norman on vocals, caused a scandal for its wink-wink use of innuendo. The lyric “bucket” was heard as “fuck it,” and it is commonly thought to be the first use of the F-word in popular music.
1. F*ck. The word f-u-c-k is one of the most widely recognized swear words in the English language.
When host Jimmy Fallon told Jackson that Hill is first on the list, The Banker star replied: “That's some bulls***.” Hill has used a total of 376 curse words in film history, followed by Leonardo DiCaprio who has cursed 361 times. Jackson came in third with 301 curses used throughout his career.
Dunbar is famed in Scottish and ecclesiastical history for issuing the longest curse, a 1000-word diatribe against the Borders reivers who he excommunicated saying this: “I curse their head and all the hairs of their head.
In Sweden, bad words mostly have a religious origin and in the past it was common to amplify them with numbers, such as 'sjutton' (17), 'attans' (an old word for 18), and 'tusan' (meaning 1,000).
The First F--k in Song? Eddy Duchin - "Old Man Moses". American pianist Eddy Duchin looked like the kind of clean-cut chap your parents wish you'd might bring home one day, but his 1938 cover of Louis Armstrong's "Old Man Moses," with Patricia Norman on vocals, caused a scandal for its wink-wink use of innuendo.
It's Joe Pesci, who's said the F-word 272 times in his various movies. But check this out: 241 of those were from a single movie: “Casino”. Al Pacino is second, with 197, followed by Jason Mewes of Jay & Silent Bob fame and Jonah Hill with 183 apiece, Leonardo DiCaprio with 144, and Seth Rogen with 140.
Unless you're speaking Esperanto, it's best to cover your ears. It's been suggested people can't swear in Japanese or Finnish, but the rumours are wrong in both cases - the only languages in which one cannot swear are 'artificial' ones such as Esperanto.
The year 1310 would be a couple of centuries before a monk reportedly scrawled the word on a manuscript by Cicero, which has commonly been considered the first appearance of the F-word in English writings.
5 letter words. Beard, Fanny, faded cocks. Weird wanks. Farted.
According to our survey, a regular Brit swears around 10.46 times per day – much less than the American daily average of 21, revealed by our study on cities that swear the most in the U.S.
Some might say, “if the 'F-word' is bad and 'freakin,' 'frick,' or 'fudge' are put in its place, isn't that just as bad?” The answer is “NO!” No it's not just as bad. In fact, the person using this word should be applauded for replacing a vulgar word with a word that actually has no meaning.
Released in April 1958, “Rumble” by Link Wray and His Ray Men was a major hit in the spring and summer in both stores and on jukeboxes--but not on radio. Interestingly, though “Rumble” contained no lyrics, many radio stations banned “Rumble” for its incendiary title.
The F-word in the dictionary
The F-word was recorded in a dictionary in 1598 (John Florio's A Worlde of Wordes, London: Arnold Hatfield for Edw. Blount). It is remotely derived from the Latin futuere and Old German ficken/fucken meaning 'to strike or penetrate', which had the slang meaning to copulate.
Although there's no hard-lines or consensus on a certain age, the general recommendation will be: Never use the f-word if you are under the age of 13. Strongly avoid using the word if you are under the age of 18.
You've seen a grawlix before, especially if you've ever read the Sunday comics. But you might not be aware that the thing had a name. The grawlix is the character or series of characters that often appear in place of profanity—the graphical version of bleeping out a word, if you will.
It's hard to imagine such a strict law in such a laid-back place, but the no-swearing law in St Kitts and Nevis is no joke. On a winding drive from the airport to the ferry port in St. Kitts, a local driver warns that there are only two things you must never do here.
Profanity, also known as cursing, cussing, swearing, bad language, foul language, obscenity, expletives, vulgarism, or vulgarity, is a socially offensive use of language. Accordingly, profanity is language use that is sometimes deemed rude, obscene, or culturally offensive; in certain religions, it constitutes sin.
According to the study, Hill says a curse word in “The Wolf of Wall Street” 22.9 times every 1,000 words.
It's unproblematic queen Miranda Cosgrove, of course
The sound that's gone viral on TikTok is taken from Miranda Cosgrove's appearance on Whitney Cummings' Good For You podcast. Miranda appeared as a guest on episode 41 of the podcast way back in August 2020, so the sound took its time to go viral.
A New Jersey star has been crowned the king of f-bombs. Joe Pesci is the actor who has dropped the most f-bombs in his films. The New Jersey native topped the list, which was compiled by Crossword-Solver, a website that surveyed online scripts to find out how many times actors say "f—," "s—" and "hell" in movies.
Never before — with the exception of The Bad News Bears — had kids spoken with fresh, loud mouths. Here's an expletive-filled look back at the top 10 lines spoken by cursing kids from films of the 1980s.
"Every society has taboos, and some of them are taboos on what you can do and some of them are taboos on what you can say," he said. Using the word is a way to show a singer is willing to break the rules, he said. The growth of cable television in America's homes also has made the word more readily heard.