Clarkson is on fire in this one, lol. Sandi, "You don't often see a map of the Asshole Gi z-score, do you?" In-step, Jeremy, "Not now Stephen's gone." 😂
For all the fuck wits still upset with my comment, I never said I like Jeremy Clarkson as a person 😂 His response was fucking hilarious. If you cannot accept it, maybe you're more uptight than he is 😊
I wish American television worked the same. Watch South Park and they can show some of the most vulgar images but someone says "fuck" and you get to hear a shrill beep censor. What's amusing that when networks censor "asshole" done as "ass *beep*" Sorry for Necroposting
@@Zecronym I think that censoring is why peple outside US often get the impression that Americans only every use one swear word, and that is fuck. Because why bother being creative about it when you are getting bleaped anyway?
Cruxador I know right? I love going to the parades and watching the dozen people go by, pretty overwhelming crowd, I remember standing in line for a whole minute once
"Gosh" is used to replace "god," notice it is popular around the Bible belt. It's common to say "Oh my gosh" or "Oh gosh" because "Oh my god" is sometimes considered more harsh. At least, that's my interpretation of it
Same with Darn (Damn), Heck (Hell) and a myriad of other words with biblical connections. It seems that rather than just stop swearing the bible belters of America decided profanity was OK so long as it was not profane :/
It's rooted in very strong cultural religious morality. It was/is considered profane and blasphemous to speak the Lord's name in vain, to curse someone/something (i.e. "God damn you"), or to otherwise invoke God in such a manner. Of course, people were still people and got angry or frustrated - but rather than suppressing their emotion entirely, they began modifying the words. So then we ended up with expressions like gosh, golly, jeepers, etc.
Fun fact: the word "Swaffelen" originated from a small pub in my hometown in The Netherlands called "Swaf". The pub named it this way because it sounds like the French word for 'thirsty', which is 'soif'. "Swaffelen" was just a running joke for slapping ones penis around. Never knew one day it would be useful to remember this piece of information.
According to the etymologic explanation, the word already meant 'a swinging movement of an object' before it got a sexual denotation added. The word got popularised in a tv show on the Dutch television after a Dutch student was arrested in India for 'swaffeling' the Taj Mahal.
I find it fascinating - I'm from New England, and noticed for "darn" and "gosh" we were quite blue. However, give us the actual swear "asshole" and we're right up there in all the orange. We don't tiptoe around anything - if we want to swear, then god dammit, we're going to swear.
@@youtubefightsback535 My great-grandmother was the past master of using that phrase. Depending on the context, the situation, whether or not she liked the other person involved, and her tone of voice, it could mean anything from "What a wonderful thing this person has achieved, well done!" to "that baby looks like Winston Churchill". And anything in between.
I can personally attest to the prolific use of the word "asshole" here in Florida. Perhaps not so much in tweets, but most DEFINITELY in daily interactions.
Yeah, I was like..."gosh" and "darn" are swear words?! Where are the actual curse words? In comes "asshole" and our northeast is lit up light a Christmas tree... haha
I'm from New England, and I've always felt that "asshole" is one of the great curses. Everyone has one. It doesn't target any specific group. Anyone can be an asshole! Also, it literaly means the orifice from which shit is expelled.
There is a red streak of fire across northern Illinois on that final map that confirms my frequent use of the word "asshole," and it's a wonderful feeling
Northern Norway has some endless streams of off-colour language to rival the best of them!😂😂 They can, apparently like the Dutch, continue uninterrupted for several minutes at a time.👍😄
Widdekuu91 I was laughing from the little Dutch I understand long before the translation, but that was really a good one!😂 I'd love to hear that in Dutch some day!
Knowing the words and using them are two different things though. It seems that test proves that articulate people know more swear words as a result, not that people who know more swear words are more articulate as a result (Causation goes in the opposite direction from what is suggested, essentially. You aren't more articulate *because* you know more swear words, you know more swear words *because* you are more articulate. There is a difference.).
I noticed one county in Nebraska with noticably lower Jizz score than the rest for every word (see 1:24). With some Googling I figured out it's McPherson. I can't figure out why the score is so low, the population seems similar to neighbouring counties. Does anyone know why?
not me it doesn't. those naming places were so unoriginal. I mean, yes you miss home, but please don't name these extraordinary new places after the tiny market town you came from. I believe there's a South Molton, or SM Street somewhere in NY. it's a small town in North Devon. Name the place something better?
Americans care very little about geography in general, unless you hope to work in logistics or transport, it'll likely be the job of your pilot if you're going much further than the next state anyway.
I would say the average American certainly knows their own state, and they could probably name and locate at least half of them. To be fair to us Americans, though, our country is enormous. To give you an idea of scale, the island of Great Britain is half the size of just California alone.
@@billyeveryteen7328 yes but we can name the capital's of almost all European countries, most of us could probably name the capital's of the major Asian countries, and even a few African capitals That seems to me to be at a higher level than the average Americans geography knowledge
The US Map is a bit annoying isn't it? I always have to remind myself that the population is heavily skewed to the coasts while states with the largest land areas are in the centre and east of the Rockies, thus giving disproportionate attention to less populated states in any spatial data visualization.
mattricho The first 3 series were released on DVD, for the rest you'll have to move to the UK and pay the licensing fee. Unfortunately that seems to be the only way to watch QI. Oh, I think it's also on Britbox, but you'll have to pay for that as well
if it's a score of *online* word use.. there's a good chance they're jizzing at the time, yes. Or trying too, rather, and the damn video won't stop buffering!
It is incredibly misleading to suggest that people who swear more are more articulate. That study showed only that people who *knew* more swear words were more articulate - it did not say anything about how often those people used them.
For what it's worth, the study/test I was referring to had nothing to do with the map. I was referring to what they talk about at 2:38. It did the rounds on Facebook with a lot of people predictably misinterpreting it and saying 'I knew I was smart, and this is proof, because I swear all the time!'
Exactly. They didn't bother to ask the test takers how often they use the swear words they know. They're probably too busy in their sesquipedalian adventures to fit any swearing in, they just hold them in their back pocket with all the rest.
Yeah, if you flip it around it sounds pretty mundane: People who are interested in words tend to know more swear words than people who are not interested in words. Heck, the fact that Jeremy Clarkson, someone who is very articulate, knew the swear zwaffelen is proof of it.
I'd really recommend watching Stephens Fry on the Joy's of Swearing as he talks about the misconception that people who swear a lot are uneducated or don't have a high vocabulary. Penn and Teller also did a great episode of Bullshit on the subject. And i'd have to disagree with the idea that swearing shows anger as the tone and context is what makes a word angry or not. You can just as easily make hey angry as you can make fuck happy.
As an American I can tell you these tweet maps are misleading. Not that those words aren’t used in those areas of the country, but it’s not that those words or even more off-color ones aren’t used in the blue area of the map. There’s a great difference between what we might say and what we would write online.
Most people who watch QI are well aware that these stats are very misleading. It is a comedy show first and foremost. Anyone who gets their news (or even worse their prejudices) from here is an idiot. As a Brit, please be aware that what you read about us online is also nowhere near the truth :)
davebuchan81 Thank you Dave. I’m a fan of QI and many classic British tv. Comedy especially. Also, history, literature and general culture. I wouldn’t presume to judge you.
+davebuchan81 Yeah I noticed the same, I really enjoy the Brits on TV, which makes for quite the shocker when you visit and they're all stuck-up cunts.
Great for stats for twitter users, but only around 22% of Americans use twitter. So that leaves roughly 240 million that don't. Something to keep in mind. Asshole is a pretty common word in many of those places that don't show it on this map. Florida for example, Georgia would be another.
Kind of curious to see the Gi z-score for those words throughout North America, generally. Speaking as a Canadian (originally from Ontario, now living in BC), I don't really hear "darn" or "gosh" used unironically. I've certainly referred to people as assholes but it doesn't really roll off the tongue as easily as 'ass' or 'dick'.
The states would be better at cursing, but we got lazy and just decided that instead of having thousands of swearwords for thousands of specific situations we would just have thousands of usages of the word "fuck".
I thought darn and gosh were meant to ''replace'' the real swearwords, and are used as such, but they aren't bad words technically. Poeple who swear alot probably do not use these words much, they use the real curses. In my opinion, These maps show where the polite poeple are. :p
God this show loves misunderstanding statistics. The cursing study, the way she described it, doesn't mean that people who curse a lot are the most articulate, it just means that people who *know* the most curse words have the largest vocabulary, which is fucking obvious - people who know a lot of words will also know a lot of curse words. There is a huge difference between knowing a word and using a word.
Blazekingz not sure if you joking. I'm a South African and I don't speak Afrikaans as my main language. Most don't. I'd say maybe 5% of the population.
The number of people I've seen who use the f word the way some people say "um" when they're trying to figure out their next word has disabused me of the notion that swearing makes you more articulate. Being articulate makes you articulate, whether swear words are a part of your regular vocabulary or not.
They're z-scored, which is a measurement of distance (in standard deviations) from the sample mean. Depending on the sample size for the word, it might not mean a huge real difference, just a statistically noticeable relative difference.
I'm from the Northeast, but living in Florida for over thirty years. I still swear a lot, but found that Jacksonville is a little prissy. There are some really uptight pockets.
Dutch people can hold a conversation made up entirely of swearwords :D i was once on a bus in denmark and I heard someone say g'damn instead of goodmorning and i was like heeeey peeps y'all are here too!?
It is offensive to some to say "God" out of hand, it's considered to be using the Lord's name in vain. Mostly the very religious in my experience and mostly older folks as well.
Sure they do, this is stats from Twitter users only, only about 22% of Americans use Twitter, so it's not completely accurate. Aholes is a pretty popular word in Florida and Georgia for example.
Sorry, but Clarkson is incredibly wrong on Dutch swearing. Dutch swearing vocabulary is so poor that it annoys me quite a lot as a native speaker of both Dutch and Turkish, the latter of which has an amazingly rich swearing vocabulary. You can witness it yourself by watching Dutch movies: it's nothing more than "kut" (cunt, as in fuck) and the ugly-sounding "godverdomme" (goddammit).
2:05 "Not now that Stephen's gone."
I woke up my entire house.
Abra Kadabra who is Stephen?
Stephen Fry, the original host. He was openly gay and that was Jeremy's joke :D
I don't get it?
@@luqas99 He's talking about the old host Stephen fry, he was gay, jizz score and asshole, get it
@Baron Von Grijffenbourg Stephen got first pick in the draft, I see.
Clarkson is on fire in this one, lol. Sandi, "You don't often see a map of the Asshole Gi z-score, do you?" In-step, Jeremy, "Not now Stephen's gone." 😂
LegacyFTW my only problem with this is that it's Stephen not Steven ;)
Dear God, I'd love to see Clarkson ACTUALLY on fire! The Right Wing, racist, twat that he is.
Clarkson knows assholes.
you watched the video, too???
For all the fuck wits still upset with my comment, I never said I like Jeremy Clarkson as a person 😂 His response was fucking hilarious. If you cannot accept it, maybe you're more uptight than he is 😊
You can "swaffelen" as many times as you like on Dutch television, just like any other swear word. Dutch television has no restriction on words.
There are informal restrictions, I don't believe anything particular is banned but certain things wouldn't make it on air at certain times.
I wish American television worked the same. Watch South Park and they can show some of the most vulgar images but someone says "fuck" and you get to hear a shrill beep censor. What's amusing that when networks censor "asshole" done as "ass *beep*"
Sorry for Necroposting
@@Zecronym Actually, the censorship in SP is one of it's charms for me, I put my own words in the beeps.
@@Zecronym I think that censoring is why peple outside US often get the impression that Americans only every use one swear word, and that is fuck.
Because why bother being creative about it when you are getting bleaped anyway?
you say that like it's a good thing
“Not now Stephens gone”
is the greatest joke in QI history
2:02 "It's not used in Montana because there's nobody there."
You wound us Montanans, Alan :(
Both of you?
@@Tjalve70 All THREE of us, thank you.
@@heroco89 Ahh, Ok. Well, Alan probably said that at a time when all three of you were on vacation.
I wanted to object too. There are lots of nice open places but there's more people than Wyoming and in some places there's even too many people.
Cruxador I know right? I love going to the parades and watching the dozen people go by, pretty overwhelming crowd, I remember standing in line for a whole minute once
"Gosh" is used to replace "god," notice it is popular around the Bible belt. It's common to say "Oh my gosh" or "Oh gosh" because "Oh my god" is sometimes considered more harsh. At least, that's my interpretation of it
Same with Darn (Damn), Heck (Hell) and a myriad of other words with biblical connections. It seems that rather than just stop swearing the bible belters of America decided profanity was OK so long as it was not profane :/
It's rooted in very strong cultural religious morality. It was/is considered profane and blasphemous to speak the Lord's name in vain, to curse someone/something (i.e. "God damn you"), or to otherwise invoke God in such a manner. Of course, people were still people and got angry or frustrated - but rather than suppressing their emotion entirely, they began modifying the words. So then we ended up with expressions like gosh, golly, jeepers, etc.
@ Rob Fraser; sums up religious people in a nutshell really, doesn't it?
I'm from the Bible belt; I think it's more of a Mormon thing. So Utah.
@@krashd Read your last sentence out loud. Derp! By definition, if something is not profane it isn't profanity.
I live in Minnesota, and I can attest that "darn" is indeed heavily used here. ;-) You betcha.
Well gosh golly darn it! Smoke me a kipper, ill be back for breakfast.
It is indeed, bud. You betcha.
Yer darn tootin!
Fun fact: the word "Swaffelen" originated from a small pub in my hometown in The Netherlands called "Swaf". The pub named it this way because it sounds like the French word for 'thirsty', which is 'soif'. "Swaffelen" was just a running joke for slapping ones penis around.
Never knew one day it would be useful to remember this piece of information.
According to the etymologic explanation, the word already meant 'a swinging movement of an object' before it got a sexual denotation added. The word got popularised in a tv show on the Dutch television after a Dutch student was arrested in India for 'swaffeling' the Taj Mahal.
Dat is best een cool verhaal. :0
I find it fascinating - I'm from New England, and noticed for "darn" and "gosh" we were quite blue. However, give us the actual swear "asshole" and we're right up there in all the orange.
We don't tiptoe around anything - if we want to swear, then god dammit, we're going to swear.
Fuck you asshole
@@c0mputer hey buddy you got a dead cat in there or what?
There was a QI episode that stated that people don't laugh alone. I just pissed myself laughing at Schwaffling....or however it's spelled.
Some of our American curses in the south don't even sound like curses. "Bless his heart" essentially means MORON. :)
Well, you can’t bless what’s not there, eh?
@@joshuahadams Indeed! Although it can also mean brainless instead of heartless. ;)
@@youtubefightsback535 My great-grandmother was the past master of using that phrase. Depending on the context, the situation, whether or not she liked the other person involved, and her tone of voice, it could mean anything from "What a wonderful thing this person has achieved, well done!" to "that baby looks like Winston Churchill". And anything in between.
I usually think Jeremy Clarkson is a total git, but the description of swaffelen killed me!
I'm not a fan of Clarkson but I am grateful he alerted me to the existence of the word 'swaffelen'.
They skipped the main takeaway from the maps-most of America tries to at least tweet politely, and we in the northeast don't.
I can personally attest to the prolific use of the word "asshole" here in Florida. Perhaps not so much in tweets, but most DEFINITELY in daily interactions.
Fuck yeah!
Yeah, I was like..."gosh" and "darn" are swear words?! Where are the actual curse words? In comes "asshole" and our northeast is lit up light a Christmas tree... haha
If the television producers bleep out the words then you're not swearing
Not just tweets, this applies to speech as well.
2:29 - Just a glimpse, but you can see "Bitch" is hugely popular across the South. Wonder why?
You might want to pause at 2:29 to catch another map they didn't talk about in the clip.
I would like to see swearing maps for other countries.
I'm from New England, and I've always felt that "asshole" is one of the great curses. Everyone has one. It doesn't target any specific group. Anyone can be an asshole! Also, it literaly means the orifice from which shit is expelled.
"The people that can name the most swear words are more articulate." In Australia, there are no swear words.
When there is NO swear word, every word is a swear word... ;)
Is this a reference to the bendy people ?
I'd have thought you'd get more swear-words out of non-bendy people who are forcibly bent.
I've heard the Aussies swear like troopers
@@matthewiles5714 That's the joke. They swear so much that they aren't even swear words anymore
Every day I'm swaffelen
I find that hard to swallow.
Brroot doot doot doot doot doot doo doo. Broot doo doo doot doot, doot doo doo
_Faint slapping in the distance..._
I wanted to comment this lol.
@@malango255 Mr. REE, I've had my 15 minutes of youtube fame. You swaffel until you cannot swaffel one more minute.
That was so awesome! Gonna have to rewatch this episode.
I'd like to see the swearing map for Australia and Scotland, but then again, the censors would not approve.
If you just want to see a solid block of colour then Ireland is also a good choice.
There is a red streak of fire across northern Illinois on that final map that confirms my frequent use of the word "asshole," and it's a wonderful feeling
As someone with a basic foundation in statistics who also laughs at dick jokes: how dare you and well done.
"Not now Stephen's gone."
Northern Norway has some endless streams of off-colour language to rival the best of them!😂😂 They can, apparently like the Dutch, continue uninterrupted for several minutes at a time.👍😄
I am from Norway, and this is so true
Censoring "hestkuk" is like disarming them though.
Widdekuu91 I was laughing from the little Dutch I understand long before the translation, but that was really a good one!😂 I'd love to hear that in Dutch some day!
theawesomesausage Nah, they just need to think of a different starter, they'll still get the old verbal shit-mill going.😉
Michael Berthelsen people from Northolt (west London) are not so eloquent, they are OK from A to D would miss out E and dry up after F.
Knowing the words and using them are two different things though. It seems that test proves that articulate people know more swear words as a result, not that people who know more swear words are more articulate as a result (Causation goes in the opposite direction from what is suggested, essentially. You aren't more articulate *because* you know more swear words, you know more swear words *because* you are more articulate. There is a difference.).
You want a high-scorer on the swear-word test, ask anybody in the service.
I noticed one county in Nebraska with noticably lower Jizz score than the rest for every word (see 1:24). With some Googling I figured out it's McPherson. I can't figure out why the score is so low, the population seems similar to neighbouring counties. Does anyone know why?
I always found it fascinating that the biggest difference between the French spoken in Quebec and the French spoken in France is the way the curse.
It’s funny how they call it New England makes me smile 😊
not me it doesn't. those naming places were so unoriginal. I mean, yes you miss home, but please don't name these extraordinary new places after the tiny market town you came from. I believe there's a South Molton, or SM Street somewhere in NY. it's a small town in North Devon. Name the place something better?
I can just imagine what maps like this would be like for Australia.
Would be pretty boring really.. 96% of our population lives within 300km of a coast line.
In the US, "darn" and "gosh" are NOT considered "swear words". "Asshole" is definitely a swear word, though.
No doubt, those words were replacements for the actual "offensive" words. The "gosh" comes from not wanting to say the Lord's name in vain.
As an American, it's shocking how good their knowledge of American geography is; it's certainly better than most Americans.
Billy Everyteen, Americans do not even know their own geography?
Lauren Miller They teach it in elementary school, but memorizing the locations of 50 states and their capitals just doesn't stick with you
Americans care very little about geography in general, unless you hope to work in logistics or transport, it'll likely be the job of your pilot if you're going much further than the next state anyway.
I would say the average American certainly knows their own state, and they could probably name and locate at least half of them. To be fair to us Americans, though, our country is enormous. To give you an idea of scale, the island of Great Britain is half the size of just California alone.
@@billyeveryteen7328 yes but we can name the capital's of almost all European countries, most of us could probably name the capital's of the major Asian countries, and even a few African capitals
That seems to me to be at a higher level than the average Americans geography knowledge
I like Jeremy's dry humour :)
g- iz score killed me
Dutch people can use any medical term as a swearing word
Gosh is like Wow. Not a swear word. Just a word to express surprise.
The GIS nerd in me is putting me in the strange place of caring more about the background maps than the dialogue.
The US Map is a bit annoying isn't it? I always have to remind myself that the population is heavily skewed to the coasts while states with the largest land areas are in the centre and east of the Rockies, thus giving disproportionate attention to less populated states in any spatial data visualization.
They're pretty basic though
Where can I watch full QI episodes now that most have been taken down?
mattricho The first 3 series were released on DVD, for the rest you'll have to move to the UK and pay the licensing fee. Unfortunately that seems to be the only way to watch QI. Oh, I think it's also on Britbox, but you'll have to pay for that as well
There are a lot of them on YT.
Correction. Darn and gosh are swears if your are a small child in the 19th century
Everybody in Nebraska says gosh except for that one town
Here we come a'swaffelen among the leave so green...
Jeremy Clarkson: "do they not use asshole in arkansas"
No Jeremy they use one of your favourite words...
...in the world.
if it's a score of *online* word use.. there's a good chance they're jizzing at the time, yes. Or trying too, rather, and the damn video won't stop buffering!
I'm looking for the clip with silly US place names. Pretty sure it was with Stephen. Help?
How do I get all access to QI? I've been missing so many episodes
maybe get your gran to tape it for you, grans always remember
If you're in the UK, series O is being repeated on BBC2 and the others get repeated on Dave. Internationally, all of Stephen's episodes are on DVD.
In the US, BritBox (7 day free trial then $6.99/mo, streaming service owned by BBC) currently has Series L through Series O.
Cameron Young/ CG who is Dave? And how do I get in contact with him?
Hammer 001 Dave is a TV channel? What happened, how’d he get like that? Poor guy.
Am Dutch. Can confirm.
Your name is AWESOME!
hey from Montana-i am here!!
Say hi to the other guy! ; )
I'm pleasantly surprised to see Jeremy :)
Jezza and the Jizz Map
Sounds like a kids book you wouldn't show the kids.
“Gosh darn it. I should have gone for the asshole”
It is incredibly misleading to suggest that people who swear more are more articulate. That study showed only that people who *knew* more swear words were more articulate - it did not say anything about how often those people used them.
Actually it only shows people who swear on twitter. It's a load of shit really
For what it's worth, the study/test I was referring to had nothing to do with the map. I was referring to what they talk about at 2:38. It did the rounds on Facebook with a lot of people predictably misinterpreting it and saying 'I knew I was smart, and this is proof, because I swear all the time!'
Exactly. They didn't bother to ask the test takers how often they use the swear words they know. They're probably too busy in their sesquipedalian adventures to fit any swearing in, they just hold them in their back pocket with all the rest.
Yeah, if you flip it around it sounds pretty mundane: People who are interested in words tend to know more swear words than people who are not interested in words. Heck, the fact that Jeremy Clarkson, someone who is very articulate, knew the swear zwaffelen is proof of it.
I'd really recommend watching Stephens Fry on the Joy's of Swearing as he talks about the misconception that people who swear a lot are uneducated or don't have a high vocabulary. Penn and Teller also did a great episode of Bullshit on the subject. And i'd have to disagree with the idea that swearing shows anger as the tone and context is what makes a word angry or not. You can just as easily make hey angry as you can make fuck happy.
As an American I can tell you these tweet maps are misleading. Not that those words aren’t used in those areas of the country, but it’s not that those words or even more off-color ones aren’t used in the blue area of the map. There’s a great difference between what we might say and what we would write online.
Well and true. Also, they seem to not consider misspellings.
Most people who watch QI are well aware that these stats are very misleading. It is a comedy show first and foremost. Anyone who gets their news (or even worse their prejudices) from here is an idiot.
As a Brit, please be aware that what you read about us online is also nowhere near the truth :)
davebuchan81 Thank you Dave. I’m a fan of QI and many classic British tv. Comedy especially. Also, history, literature and general culture.
I wouldn’t presume to judge you.
I would. I assume every British person is exactly like Alan Davies. Clearly, Steven Fry was just acting.
+davebuchan81
Yeah I noticed the same, I really enjoy the Brits on TV, which makes for quite the shocker when you visit and they're all stuck-up cunts.
When is the new season out?
i hope you haven't missed the last 3 seasons waiting for a reply??
Why do the audience burst out laughing at "Gi z-score"?
Rozamunduszek because it sounds like “jizz”.
300DBenz oooh, thats funny, thanks for the explanation!
what series/episode is this?
Yep i know that, just wanted to know which episode this is as ive not seen it
Rather late to the party, but… the episodes are listed in the description. This excerpt is from Series N, Ep. 4 - “Noble Rot.”
Great for stats for twitter users, but only around 22% of Americans use twitter. So that leaves roughly 240 million that don't. Something to keep in mind. Asshole is a pretty common word in many of those places that don't show it on this map. Florida for example, Georgia would be another.
As someone from new england can confirm we say asshole alot but mostly refering to other states
and there's the town called Athol
Oh my gosh, Jeremy
Kind of curious to see the Gi z-score for those words throughout North America, generally. Speaking as a Canadian (originally from Ontario, now living in BC), I don't really hear "darn" or "gosh" used unironically. I've certainly referred to people as assholes but it doesn't really roll off the tongue as easily as 'ass' or 'dick'.
The states would be better at cursing, but we got lazy and just decided that instead of having thousands of swearwords for thousands of specific situations we would just have thousands of usages of the word "fuck".
Notice they all know which states are which without the labels.... I wonder whether americans could do the same...
Why say 'gosh darn it to heck', when really you mean 'God damn you to Hell'?
Because religious folk don't like to use those words.
The chart for "gosh" clearly shows the Bible Belt and the Mormon Belt -- all those Southern Christians and those Mormons in Utah, Idaho, and Arizona.
They must think god a bit of an idiot, not expecting him to understand what they really mean to say with gosh darn jeez
omg I want to see the F bomb map lol!
I imagine they're mostly dropped in the middle-east.
middle-east doesnt mean what you think it means to anyone that isnt american
Sax Rendell That's a weird usage even in America. Every American I've ever heard say "middle east" was using it the way the rest of the world uses it
Fructose bomb?
The H bomb is used a couple of times in Japan :P
British television is the best
I thought darn and gosh were meant to ''replace'' the real swearwords, and are used as such, but they aren't bad words technically. Poeple who swear alot probably do not use these words much, they use the real curses. In my opinion, These maps show where the polite poeple are. :p
I'm shocked "asshole" isn't universal.
not just the Taj Mahal, any object or person really
Are the cat collars Sara's trademark clothing item or does she just really like them? I always see her wearing one on game shows.
Just really likes them I guess, seen her wear a few but they are definitely no trademark.
Oh dear god... they've tracked my use of 'asshole'. o.0
Have y'all never met anyone from Georgia??
Bless your hearts.
Well, Reg Hunter's been on the show a lot :P
Wouldn't that be "Have y'all never met no-one from Georgia?"
I see what you did there, Jerry. :D
Gosh, darn it!
It's not "Jizz-Score", Gosh Darn it to Heck.
The northeast has a high rating for "asshole" for a VERY good reason. Just so "gosh" "darn" many of them there...
I mean we are called massholes for a reason lol
LOL! I hear you! Half of my family is from Amesbury, MA.@@justalittlealien
God this show loves misunderstanding statistics. The cursing study, the way she described it, doesn't mean that people who curse a lot are the most articulate, it just means that people who *know* the most curse words have the largest vocabulary, which is fucking obvious - people who know a lot of words will also know a lot of curse words. There is a huge difference between knowing a word and using a word.
From Ohio, I use darn sometimes. Being the from the most swearing state in the Union I do say fuck and damn far more often.
Hahaha that test doesn’t prove that they swear more, just that more articulate people know more words.
Try a South African Cape Coloured for some flavourful swearing.
Simon du Toit agreed 100% 😂😂
south african language is basicly altered dutch
Blazekingz , you’re right but Afrikaans is just one of the many languages in South Africa
ive never seen a south african on the internet who didnt speak afrikaans as their main language so idk
Blazekingz not sure if you joking. I'm a South African and I don't speak Afrikaans as my main language. Most don't. I'd say maybe 5% of the population.
I'm quite sure Jeremy made up on the spot that Dutch cuss word story 😂
Nope it just means dickslap. Some students did it to the Taj Mahal once that's where his confusion arose
Golly gee willikers, I would have presumed we Americans were more colorful in our language.
You bet your bippy we are.
"Gee Willikers, mister!" always reminds me of the Lemonade kid from The Curse of Monkey Island.
I'm surprised the bbc had Jeremy back.
The number of people I've seen who use the f word the way some people say "um" when they're trying to figure out their next word has disabused me of the notion that swearing makes you more articulate. Being articulate makes you articulate, whether swear words are a part of your regular vocabulary or not.
the people who don't say asshole, what do they say instead?
Arse hole
Or the inverse, people in New England swear a ton
kinda impressive that Alan knows which one Montana or Georgia is... many Americans wouldn't find those two on the map
Ok, only one of those three words are actually considered swear words in the U.S.
Ikr, "gosh" hasn't been a "swear word" since I was a kid and I'm freakin' 50.
cant speak for the whole nation, but this is either extremely wrong for florida or the rest of the country REALLY overuses these words
They're z-scored, which is a measurement of distance (in standard deviations) from the sample mean. Depending on the sample size for the word, it might not mean a huge real difference, just a statistically noticeable relative difference.
I'm from the Northeast, but living in Florida for over thirty years. I still swear a lot, but found that Jacksonville is a little prissy. There are some really uptight pockets.
thanrose lol idk what part of jacksonville you live in. the westside isnt shy about language in the slightest
Probably this is due to the fact that people in Florida do not use twitter because they have proper jobs
Danish also has a whole poetic flower of swear-words
So now we know how to get banned from the local Indian restaurant.
Dutch people can hold a conversation made up entirely of swearwords :D i was once on a bus in denmark and I heard someone say g'damn instead of goodmorning and i was like heeeey peeps y'all are here too!?
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These aren't american curse words. "Gosh" and "darn" are replacements for curse words. Not that saying the word "God" would be offensive either.
While true, I'm also of a mind that if you use a "filler" in place of a curse word, you're still cursing. Because everyone knows what you mean.
It is offensive to some to say "God" out of hand, it's considered to be using the Lord's name in vain. Mostly the very religious in my experience and mostly older folks as well.
Jemery
Micheal
Hmm, have you read "The Nine Billion Names Of God" by A. C. Clarke?
Hmm, so Mississippians don't call people aholes? Well, I guess they wouldn't bother with name calling they just nevermind.
Sure they do, this is stats from Twitter users only, only about 22% of Americans use Twitter, so it's not completely accurate. Aholes is a pretty popular word in Florida and Georgia for example.
Clarkson's bloody quick on this one 😂
Sorry, but Clarkson is incredibly wrong on Dutch swearing. Dutch swearing vocabulary is so poor that it annoys me quite a lot as a native speaker of both Dutch and Turkish, the latter of which has an amazingly rich swearing vocabulary. You can witness it yourself by watching Dutch movies: it's nothing more than "kut" (cunt, as in fuck) and the ugly-sounding "godverdomme" (goddammit).
Blimmin ‘eck
Gosh is not a fucking swear word in America.