Dear Mexican: I’m a Spanish teacher, and I’ve been hearing my students say a phrase, Tiki tu madre, and I am unsure what it means (if it truly means anything, which they swear it does). Dear Mexican: ...

What's in a swear? The world's filthiest words typically refer to something vulgar or taboo, for one. But there's something else swears across the world's languages have in common. They're all missing ...

Dear Armo: Now, ¡Ay, caramba! might not be as popular or as peculiarly Mexican a swear as, say, “pinche puto pendejo baboso,” “¡Cu-le-ro!” or the many epithets derived from the word mamá (mother), but ...

A new study shows that swear words across languages may have more in common than previously thought. Many of them tend to leave out the same sounds. There's a common trope in sci fi when characters ...