Jack Grieves

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What in tarnation? Maps track ‘bad words’ on Twitter

Montanans—at least those of us who use Twitter—are a fairly tame lot, according to a British linguist. Jack Grieves, a lecturer in forensic linguistics at Aston University in Birmingham, England, has published a series of maps showing the comparative usage rates of “bad words” in the continental United States, as they appear in Tweets. (more…) Continue Reading →

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