This is the Allusions, in which I, Helen Zoltzman, take a screen grab of language

mooning the Google Street View cameras.

Coming up in today's show is some great news!

And also some swearing, so take whatever precautions you deem necessary.

Wrap up the good China, send the cats to the catarie.

Lock your child in the panic room with a two week supplier, Rybina and Judy Bloom novels.

Then put on your ceremonial swearing robes, meet me back here in the time it takes

to say, can't fuck, she fucks, she fucks, she fucks.

On with the show.

One of the fantastic things that I discovered during researching the book is that this idea

that people who swear have less broad vocabularies or somehow less skilled with language

is completely false, and that people who have the broad vocabularies and the wider ability

to express themselves also tend to use the wider vocabulary of swearing into express

themselves, liberally we're swearing when it's appropriate.

One of my school teachers used to say disapprovingly, swearing is the sign of a small vocabulary,

which I knew at the time doesn't make sense because if you cut out the swears your vocabulary

is at least 10 to 50 words smaller.

And now some 25 years later I'm glad to hear a scientist proving him wrong too.

I'm Dr Emma Bern, I am the author of swearing is good for you.

Rejoice swearing is good for you.

Why is swearing good for you?

It's good for us socially in that it is this really useful telegraph of our emotions,

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