Cursebird provides "a real-time feed of people swearing on Twitter."
It even shows a seven-day overview bar graph of the relative frequency of various common swear words.
Recently in the Maledicta Category
Recently happened across the Wikipedia article on Spanish profanity. The little I've read of it so far seems to be useful and interesting.
See also the articles on Portuguese profanity, Quebec French profanity, and Latin profanity among others.
Just saw this headine:
Supreme Court Rules that Government Can Fine for 'Fleeting Expletives'
--Washington Post, April 28, 2009
Wouldn't "The Fleeting Expletives" be a good band name?
Just encountered a comment in an article on Britain's Got Talent that refers to "a dancer who was show[ing] her thrupennie bits to the world."
Thruppence, or the threepenny bit, was, of course, a British coin worth three pence.
And "thrupenny bits" turns out to be Cockney rhyming slang for "tits."
