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Interesting Words - Swearing

A study at Brigham Young University found that popular novels aimed at teenagers contain, on average, 38 swear words per novel.

(Professor Sarah Coyne, of Brigham Young University in America, found that 88 per cent of all the books on the adolescent best-seller list contained at least one swear word, she also noticed that the most popular characters were the most foul-mouthed.)

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