While you might think that less educated working-class people are more likely to swear than others, in fact the upper classes are just as keen on blue language.
In contrast, the group least likely to use bad language is the middle class, according to Dr Mohr.
'This goes back to the Victorian era idea that you get control over your language and your deportment, which indicates that you are a proper, good person and this is a sign of your morality and awareness of social rules,' she said.
Additionally, many claim that swearing is a sign of mental laziness, but the evidence shows that it does in fact have some practical uses.
If you are subjected to acute pain such as stubbing your toe, swearing can be cathartic, providing relief from the agony - studies have shown that swearing sometimes has a genuine physiological effect on the body.
Swearing also helps to form social solidarity - for example, when workers use swear words while talking about their managers, it builds an 'in-group' which aids social and professional interaction.
Dr Mohr told Time that an analysis of the words used by an average English-speaking person over the course of a day reveals that around 0.7% of our language consists of swear words.
That means that one in 140 words we use is obscene - roughly the same proportion as the first-person plural pronouns such as 'we', 'us' and 'our'.
The surprising preponderance of swearing in everyday language explains why the majority of children know at least one swear word by the age of two.
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