It’s a word that’s been gleefully co-opted by both sides of the political spectrum for their most basic rallying cries (F*** Joe Biden. F*** Trump), and it’s having a veritable heyday this week in the ...
Jesse Sheidlower is the world’s expert on the F word — and that’s an expertise that requires more work than you might think. Sheidlower is editor at large of the Oxford English Dictionary, and his 270 ...
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Dangerous leaders are big fans of the “F ”word. We find ways to use it constantly. In many ways, we ...
And just like that, Donald Trump ruined something else. To be fair, Democrats also played a role in spoiling it. We’re talking about the f-word, of course. Trump furiously threw it out during a live ...
Let’s talk about the F-word. Not the one uttered 269 times in “Reservoir Dogs” and 569 times in “The Wolf of Wall Street.” I’m talking about the one that should be on everyone’s lips — because it so ...
We’ve arrived at a grim reality: Our culture is overdosing on the F word. It’s so sad to see such a good bad word dragged through the mud like this. Stripped of its zing. Its shock value. Now, it’s ...
The most famous four-letter word is also the most prolific. Don’t believe me? Then check out all 449 pages of editor Jesse Sheidlower’s fourth edition of “The F-Word,” a historical dictionary that is ...
Just go ahead and say it, nobody minds anymore. Trump cursing during an interview is merely the last gasp of our media culture depleting the f-word of it’s former power. By James Hibberd ...