We’ve arrived at a grim reality: Our culture is overdosing on the F word. It’s so sad to see such a good bad word dragged through the mud like this. Stripped of its zing. Its shock value. Now, it’s ...
Jesse Sheidlower is the world’s expert on the F word — and that’s an expertise that requires more work than you might think. Sheidlower is editor at large of the Oxford English Dictionary, and his 270 ...
Just go ahead and say it, nobody minds anymore. Trump cursing during an interview is merely the last gasp of our media culture depleting the f-word of it’s former power. By James Hibberd ...
It’s a word that’s been gleefully co-opted by both sides of the political spectrum for their most basic rallying cries (F*** Joe Biden. F*** Trump), and it’s having a veritable heyday this week in the ...
It can compliment, or dismiss. It sometimes conveys strong emotions, or no emotion at all. And that's "nice" -- a tidy, sturdy word that's remarkably adaptable. Hundreds of years ago, it meant someone ...