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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDo You Live in a Fuck State or a Shit State?
The Guardian reports today on the latest work of Jack Grieve, a professor of forensic linguistics at Aston University in the UK, aided by research from Diansheng Guo and Alice Kasakoff of the University of South Carolina and Andrea Nini, of Aston University. Their research topic is this: how do people swear in different US states? Only a British newspaper could publish this, since American newspapers would never allow such family-unfriendly swill in their august pages. Hell, I may be stretching things by doing it at Mother Jones.
You can click the link for the full rundown, but you'll be interested to know that "fuckboy" is one of the fastest rising words of 2014. It's apparently popular in the mid-Atlantic region and in California starting just north of where I livewhich explains why I've never heard of it.
In any case, here's a sample of Grieve's linguistic maps. On the left are states where "fuck" is especially popular, and on the right are states where "shit" is especially popular. California is clearly a fuck state, which fits with my observations of a lifetime. Of course, you also have some statesmostly in the polite Midwestthat don't use either, and somemostly the coastal areas from South Carolina up to New Jerseywhere they really like them both. Fascinating, no? Certainly more interesting than the old soda-pop-coke chestnut.
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/07/do-you-live-fuck-state-or-shit-state
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)hollysmom
(5,946 posts)hee
47of74
(18,470 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,384 posts)When she hurls an F-bomb or two.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,817 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)Little Star
(17,055 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)It looks like there are large swaths of the country that doesn't know how to swear.
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)For all that cussin'
surrealAmerican
(11,369 posts)I wouldn't have thought it, but apparently people on the west coast don't have a lot of shit.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)DamnYankeeInHouston
(1,365 posts)Yavin4
(35,455 posts)I'm from NY.