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May 18, 2012— -- Profanity in teen novels varies greatly from book to book, but characters that do use foul language tend to also be the most popular, attractive and rich, according to new ...

Textual analysis of more than 1m books by scholars shows startling proliferation of swearwords since the mid-1950s Mark Twain wrote: “There ought to be a room in every house to swear in ...

The final sample for analysis consisted of 13,884 pages of text from novels aimed at readers age nine and above. RESULTS : Thirty-five of the 40 books, or nearly nine in 10, had at least one ...

The study found that one particular swear word is 678 times more likely to appear in American literature now than it was in the early 1950s. No, we’re not going to give you a hint.

11 examples of how swearing can be a force for good. Or why Vladimir Putin is wrong to ban swearing in Russian arts and media. ... But when it first started popping up in literature, ...

Following the Telegraph's piece about the profanity in a young adult novel called When Mr Dog Bites, Bloomsbury's Director of Children's Books explains why the publishers decided to allow the swearing ...

She was sworn in on two books: “A People’s History of the United States” by Howard Zinn and “The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism” by Naoki Higashida.

Agatha Christie would have included sex, drugs and swearing in her novels – if only it had been acceptable, according to a TV writer. Sarah Phelps – who has adapted Miss Christie’s The ABC ...