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US ranks first in swearing (www.popsci.com)

submitted 4 days ago by Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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[–] Floodedwomb@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's a popsci article, so.its probably bullshit.

[–] mriswith@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'd take it with a pinch of salt:

Linguists in Australia recently analyzed the Global Web-Based English Corpus (GloWbE), a massive database containing over 1.9 billion words from 1.8 million web pages across 340,000 websites in 20 English-speaking countries.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago

Pure garbage considering much of the internet is US based.