Drivers to face fines for swearing during a race New rule tested ... rules that will see drivers slapped with a fine of up to $200,000 for swearing during the heat of the moment in a race.

F1 stars face race bans and fines of more than $200,000 if they are caught repeatedly using obscene language, in a bid to stop swear words blaring over team radios and on to live TV broadcasts.

What’s in a swear? The world’s filthiest words typically refer to something vulgar or taboo, for one. But there’s something else swears across the world’s languages have in common.

A new study shows that swear words across languages may have more in common than previously thought. Many of them tend to leave out the same sounds. There's a common trope in sci fi when ...

But what phonemes and linguistic elements give a swear word that quintessential gut-punch feeling? A study published today in the journal Psychonomic Bulletin & Review offers findings on one ...

So we designed a series of studies involving speakers of different languages and found surprising patterns in how swear words sound across the world. The idea that the sounds in such words ...

If you stub your toe or slam your finger in a door, there’s a good chance the first thing out of your mouth is a four-letter word. But although swearing is a near-universal feature of language ...