America's Favorite Curse Words Mapped
An American institution laid bare with some NSFW maps.
America’s penchant for swearing has finally been captured in map form. Jack Grieve, a professor in Forensic Linguistics at Aston University in England has used geotagged data and analyzed almost a billion tweets to produce these eye-catching and informative maps. Each map shows a specific curse word and its popularity across the United States via a color-coded scale. Check out the gallery above to see where people don’t really say “Shit” any more and witness the decline in popularity of “Gosh.”
