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 ...

While different languages may have different swear words, they tend to all lack similar sounds, new research suggests. Sounds such as I, r, and w are missing from a range of swear words across ...

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Dingemanse’s team analyzed recordings of people speaking ten different languages, including Spanish, Chinese and Icelandic, as well as indigenous languages from Ecuador, Australia and Ghana.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...