Britons' use of swear words has declined by more than a quarter since the 1990s, a new study has found.
The research also suggests the word 'f***' has overtaken 'b***dy' as the most popular curse in the UK.
It compared the use of 16 of the nation's most common swear words, including p***, c*** and s**g, from the 1990s to the 2010s.
In total, the amount of swearing has fallen by 27.6 per cent, from 1,822 words per million in 1994 to 1,320 words per million in 2014.
Britons' use of swear words has declined by more than a quarter since the 1990s, a new study has found. Pictured above were the 16 most used swear words by Britons in 1994 and 2014
The research also suggests the word 'f***' has overtaken 'b***dy' as the most popular curse in the UK (stock image)
The study, which was carried out by Dr Robbie Love of Aston University, looked at how swearing has changed in casual British English conversation over the past three decades.
Dr Love used two large bodies of transcriptions: the Spoken British National Corpus gathered in 1994 and the same corpus from 2014.
Together these include over 15 million words, although swear words account for less than 1 per cent.
The research showed that the type of swear words used has changed over the years, with 'b****y' being the most common in the 1990s and 'f***' in the 2010s.
This is down to a big decline in the use of 'b****y', Dr Love found, while 'f***' has remained relatively steady.
It was the second most commonly used swear word in 1994, followed by s**t, p***, b****r and c**p.
Twenty years later b****r had fallen from the fifth most common curse to the ninth, while b*****d dropped from seventh to 10th.
The big climbers are s**t, from third to second, a**e, from eighth to sixth and d***, from tenth to seventh.
T**t also rose from the 16th most common swear word in the 1990s to 13th by the 2010s.
Dr Love then analysed
