Britons are the second most prolific swearers in the world, behind only the Americans, a study has found.
Profanity is commonplace in language globally and is often used to emphasise a point, accent a sentence, or as a form of stress and pain relief.
A new analysis of 20 English-speaking nations compared the frequency of swear words in the language and analysed almost two billion words on 1.8 million different websites.
