British Swearing

Posted in Language by Greg Ross on September 20th, 2005

The top 10 most offensive British profanities, according to a 2000 study:

  1. cunt
  2. motherfucker
  3. fuck
  4. wanker
  5. nigger
  6. bastard
  7. prick
  8. bollocks
  9. arsehole
  10. Paki

Only 10 percent regarded crap as “very severe”; 32 percent said it was “not swearing.”