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Which language makes us swear the most?

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We the populous have a fascination with most things rude. When Dr Samuel Johnson unleased his dictionary for the first time, he was appalled that women, ladies if you will, were looking up all the rude words.

Google has helped us once again to get beneath the covers to see the under belly of our developer society. With their CodeSearch engine released this week, an enterprising blogger has charted all the expletives used and categorised them by language.

It would seem that php has us swearing the most. Read into that as you may!

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blackbadger 0.9.2 released (Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:58:58 GMT)

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