Swear words lack the consonant sounds l, r, w and y across several languages – including Chinese, English and Spanish, according to a new study from researchers at Royal Holloway, University of ...

They also looked at swear words in Arabic, Chinese, Finnish, French, German and Spanish. The team judged foreign words less likely to be swear words if they contained an approximant.

Swear words are thought to have sounds that help facilitate the expression of emotion and attitude, ... German, Spanish) to rate pairs of imaginary words created by the authors, ...

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It found swear words had a higher proportion of plosive sounds and fewer sonorant sounds (speech sounds with a nasal, gliding quality) such as l and w. But this could be an oddity of English.

Swear words are thought to have sounds that help facilitate the expression of emotion and attitude. ... Arabic, Chinese, Finnish, French, German, Spanish) to rate pairs of imaginary words created by ...

Researchers asked 215 people (from across six different languages – Arabic, Chinese, Finnish, French, German, Spanish) to rate pairs of imaginary words created by the authors, one of which ...