3Qs: The evolution of profanity
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 - 09:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
#@&#! Profanity has long been a key element of American culture. We're profane when we're frustrated or telling a story or even when we're watching TV, but how do words get labeled as profane and where do they come from? Here, Heather Littlefield, associate academic specialist and head advisor of the linguistics program in the College of Science, weighs in on society's "bad words."