"Most children learn how to swear before they even know the alphabet"

From The Daily Mail

* 0.7% of all English spoken language is bloody swearing

* Many children learn swear words before the alphabet, for God's sake

* Bad language dates to those bastard Romans and arsehole Anglo-Saxons

Jesus wept! Most little buggers learn how to swear before they even know the fucking alphabet, according to a twattish new book that examines bad language and its origins.

English speakers also use a curse word on average once in every dozen words, roughly the same proportion as the first person plural pronouns such as 'we', 'us', 'our' and 'oh shit'. The surprising preponderance of swearing in everyday language probably explains why the majority of children know at least one obscene word by the age of two, says some slag called Dr. Mellissa Mohr, from Knobhead University in California.