BBC Swear Word Frequency Charts
A report titled Delete Expletives? by the Advertising Standards Authority of the British Broadcasting Corporation correlates various English swear words with how well they are perceived. Statistically, “c*nt” and “m*therf*ck*r” are the most offensive, while “bloody” and “god” round off the bottom of the list.
Thanks to the fantastic Ben Goldacre for digging this up!
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very interesting but some are a bit off – I mean god isn't a swear word. That's more of an old time thing where people thought using the direct term god was bad, nowadays it's used and isn't considered profane except by the most conservative of religious groups.
I don’t think any of those are very harsh actually LOL. I always say the c u next tuesday word, and everyone around me uses it and it’s meant to be the harshest? doesnt bother me. oh well. lol.