DETROIT – The Motor City is known for many things -- our wildly inconsistent sports teams, the massive art and music scene, Coney Dogs -- but what about our passionate vocabulary?
A new study from WordTips analyzed 1.7 million English-language social media posts and calculated what areas were swearing the most.
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The United States ranks No. 1 as the country that swears the most with 41.6 posts per 1,000 featuring profanity.
The United Kingdom ranks No. 2 with 28.6 posts per 1,000 containing curse words.
Detroit ranks as No. 4 most potty-mouthed city in the world, with 66 posts with profanity per 1,000. Above us is Atlanta at No. 3, Baton Rouge at No. 2 and Baltimore at No. 1.
The least-sweary states in the U.S. are primarily in the Midwest, with Michigan, Illinois and Ohio being outliers. Michigan is No. 1 for profanity in our region.
On the other side of things, Ann Arbor is No. 3 for the least profane cities in the United States.
