[display-posts]
-
Ofcom: Public attitudes towards offensive language on TV and radio
Research carried out for Ofcom, the UK broadcasting regulator, to establish how the public actually feels about particular words — so that broadcasters have something better than instinct to work from when deciding what may be said, and when. The 2021 study asked 368 people about 186 words over five days, alongside 37 discussion groups…
-
List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene and Otherwise Bad Words
A list of roughly 400 English words that Shutterstock uses to filter its own autocomplete and recommendation systems — so that a search for something innocuous does not suggest something else. It was published openly in 2012 and has been maintained since, with versions in more than two dozen languages. It is worth being clear…
-
What is likely to be considered increasingly offensive in the future?
Some words, phrases, and practices that are currently only considered offensive by a minority of people could very well become more widely recognized as problematic in the future. Some examples below blur the line between being an offensive practice versus an offensive term, but are covered here on the site and rated as terms: