.Ben Zimmer wrote for Language Log about obscenicons from 1901: languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=41943

“Words like squirt and scum don’t have quite the speed. We already know that skeet seems like a good word for shooting, and, well…”

.Velocity Partners: How to use swear words in your fucking marketing velocitypartners.com/blog/how-to-us…

“If you don't know what AF means, you're SOL." - Peter D Sagal on waitwait

Let the Congressional Record show that the gentlelady from Texas said “in the shitter.”

What's a word that is not a curse word, that is super fun to say like it's a curse word?

New on the blog: Asterisks for the f*n of it stronglang.wordpress.com/2023/10/11/ast…

Need a replacement PDQ? stronglang.wordpress.com/2023/10/26/nee…

It's time for the annual Strong Language Tucker Awards for excellence in swearing! Featuring Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK Jesse Armstrong Cord Jefferson Jeffrey Wright 🥜 Terry Matalas @rebecca_roache Jess Zafarris 📚 James Fell Olivia Rodrigo The Offspring Jasmine Crockett @chrissyteigen stronglang.wordpress.com/2023/12/31/the…

Happy new year, mofos! Time for our year-end tradition: the annual Ticker Awards for swearing, emceed as always by Ben Zimmer. stronglang.wordpress.com/2023/12/31/the…

Strong Language "Enshittification" was the American Dialect Society's Word of the Year. Popularized by Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK in December 2022, but not first used at this time, as this #enshittification thread shows. #shit #WOTY2023

And the American Dialect Society’s “Word of the Year” is… Enshittification — a “sadly apt” term, as the lexicographer Ben Zimmer put it, for when an online platform goes to shit Ahem. americandialect.org/2023-word-of-t…

The sweary WotYs stronglang.wordpress.com/2024/01/07/the… via Strong Language

"Bumbaclart" is a pronunciation spelling (for non-rhotic speakers) of Jamaican patois "bomboclaat"/"bumbaclot." See James Harbeck, sesquiotic.bsky.social's Strong Language post for background on the term. stronglang.wordpress.com/2020/01/09/wha…

New on the blog: @Fritinancy on “bitchin’,” which rode a wave of surfer slang to become a widespread adjective, interjection , and brand name. stronglang.wordpress.com/2024/03/27/tha…