(NEXSTAR) – It might be time to wash our mouths out with soap, America.
A recent analysis from Word Tips — an online Scrabble resource — has suggested that U.S.-based social-media users on X (formerly Twitter) use curse words more than those of any other country they studied, with about 41.6 foul-mouthed tweets per every 1,000.
In coming to their findings, the analysts at Word Tips studied a sample of 1.7 million geotagged tweets for any of 1,600 English-language profanities — but they only looked at tweets written in the English language. For this reason, it’s likely that tweets sent from English-speaking countries contained more four-letter words simply because users were more familiar with the terms and their usage.
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Still, X users in the U.S. used swear words significantly more often than those in other English-speaking countries including the U.K. (28.6 per 1,000 tweets), Australia (26.6 per 1,000), New Zealand (25.2) and Canada (24.6).