How many swears total are in the English language?
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depends on what you call a swear word.\n\nThat I can think of off the top of my head, there are\n4 major ones
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To start, an "oath" is also known as a "swear" or "curse." It is what you might say when you stub your toe or find out your girlfriend cheated on you.\n\nA "Victorian Oath," or "Minced Oath" as they came to be known, is what you do in front of your children. You stub your toe, and say "Holy Sh....eik!"\n\nA list of these can be found on the link below.\nHave fun!
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This question is only tangentially related to word and phrase origins, but enough people ask it that I thought I'd provide a permanent answer.\n\nThis is an indeterminate question. First, there is the problem of what exactly is a word. Are mouse, mice, mousy, and mouselike separate words or just forms of one root word? Is a computer mouse the same word as the rodent? (To demonstrate the difficulty in counting words, over the centuries many scholars have attempted to count how many different words Shakespeare used in his corpus of work. The counts run anywhere from 16,000 to 30,000.)\n\nSecond, unlike French, English has no official body to determine what is proper and what is not. English dictionaries are (usually) descriptive in nature, not prescriptive. That is they describe how the language exists and is used, they do not prescribe its use. Just because a word "is not in the dictionary," doesn't mean that it is not a legitimate word. It simply means the dictionary editors omitted it for one reason or another.\n\nThe OED2, the largest English-language dictionary, contains some 290,000 entries with some 616,500 word forms. Of course, there are lots of slang and regional words that are not included and the big dictionary omits many proper names, scientific and technical terms, and jargon as a matter of editorial policy (e.g., there are some 1.4 million named species of insect alone). All told, estimates of the total vocabulary of English start at around three million words and go up from there.\n\nOf these, about 200,000 words are in common use today. An educated person has a vocabulary of about 20,000 words and uses about 2,000 in a week's conversation. (These estimates vary widely depending on who is doing the counting, so don't take them as absolute.)
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There's 10 if I remember correctly\n\nBowled\nCaught\nLeg Before Wicket\nStumped\nRun Out\nHit Wicket\nHandled Ball\nObstruction\n\nand two more I can't think of.  Play the game every bleedin' week, you think I'd remember. \n\nDaryl Hair'd?
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Probably no one has an exact count but you could expect to find Arabic (official), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, diverse dialects of Nilotic, Nilo-Hamitic, Sudanic languages, English
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171,476 words in current use, and 47,156 obsolete words. To this may be added around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries. Over half of these words are nouns, about a quarter adjectives, and about a seventh verbs; the rest is made up of interjections, conjunctions, prepositions, suffixes, etc. These figures take no account of entries with senses for different parts of speech (such as noun and adjective).\n\nThis suggests that there are, at the very least, a quarter of a million distinct English words, excluding inflections, and words from technical and regional vocabulary not covered by the OED, or words not yet added to the published dictionary, of which perhaps 20 per cent are no longer in current use. If distinct senses were counted, the total would probably approach three quarters of a million.
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all are english words,,,, \nahahaha !\nwhats up man,,,, you dont know them ?
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Go to http:/wikipedia.org and do a search for "List of Ethnic Slurs". That'll tell you.
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a whole lot. but you'd prolly not understand it cos evidently i speak English and you don't.
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When society decides it is.\n\nUsually takes from a century to a half a century.\n\nThere was once a time when the word "bastard" was heinous!  Now, it's mildly a swear word.
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Bloody hell is a very light weight swearword in England and would not be considerd vulgar. However in the south of England the word bleeding hell is considerd light weight.  But we in the north of England consider this to be most vulgar.
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They seem to be swear words. Here is a link.\nJust type in the words at the top
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The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a dictionary published by the Oxford University Press (OUP). Generally regarded as the most comprehensive and scholarly dictionary of the English language, it includes about 301,100 main entries, as of November 30, 2005, comprising over 350 million printed characters. In addition to the headwords of main entries, the OED contains 157,000 combinations and derivatives in bold type, and 169,000 phrases and combinations in bold italic type, making a total of 616,500 word-forms. There are 137,000 pronunciations, 249,300 etymologies, 577,000 cross-references, and 2,412,400 illustrative quotations. The latest complete printed version of the dictionary was 21,730 pages with 291,500 entries.
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Is that even English?
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There are many...it is a language made of Sanskrit, Greek and Latin\n\nYou don't respect people in english...you call you to all...which is very bad
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Actually the swear words aren't the most offensive at all. \n\nWould you be more offended to be called n****r or c**t or a paedophile?  Or a child-murderer, or a racist, or a homophobe, or amoral.  There are many words worse than swear words that you can be called.
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Only 1 decent one!\nCOOOOOOOMMMMMEEE ONN ENGERLAND ENGERLAND ENGEEEERLAND!\nENGERLAND ENGERLAND ENGEREEEEEEELAAAAAND