Latest live swearing on UK twitter Richard Stephens School of Psychology, Keele University, United Kindom; Funding: This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. Word Count: XX (Not including reference list) 30 December 2020 Author Note: Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Dr Richard Stephens, School of Psychology, Keele University, UK, ST5 5BG. E-mail: r.stephens@keele.ac.uk. Introduction Offensive or obscene language is known as swearing in the UK and cursing in the US (Soanes, 2002). That most languages include swear words (Van Lancker & Cummings, 1999) suggests they fulfil one or more useful functions and researchers have begun to explore what some of the benefits of swearing might be. Repeating a swear word has...