Edmonton Ranks Among Canada’s Sweariest Cities, But Saskatoon Wins by a [fornicating] mile!

Canadians love a good cuss word—about 58% of us admit to swearing regularly (and the remaining 42% lie about it). But some cities take that [malarkey] to the next level.

According to a not-at-all-scientific study, Saskatoon is the undisputed king of Canadian potty-mouths, blowing the competition out of the [fornicating] water with a rudeness score of 8.04/10. Locals there drop profanity in 7.44% of their comments, averaging 2.25 swears per post. No other city even came close. Prince Albert (SK) and Truro (NS) tied for fifth place, but let’s be honest—Saskatoon is in a league of its own.

Edmonton, Red Deer, and Toronto rounded out the rest of the top five, with Edmonton earning its spot thanks to an impressive dedication to f-bombs and other words that you can’t say on television. YEG residents might not have hit Saskatoon’s level, but they sure as [Helsinki] put in the effort.

Before anyone gets their knickers in a twist, let’s be clear—this “study” was put together by an online casino site. They scraped data from Reddit, counted the spicy words, and called it a day. Hardly Nobel Prize-worthy research, but entertaining nonetheless.

As for Canada’s favourite swear word?  To the surprise of absolutely nobody, it’s the classic F-word, followed by its ‘-ing’ variation. ‘Stupid’ somehow came in third, which is, frankly, stupid.

In case you were wondering—and no doubt you were—the honour of the most under-appreciated profanity goes to [a word which sends many women into a white-hot rage] which, while wildly offensive in North America, is practically a term of endearment in Australia. Maybe we should take notes.

Anyway, debate it if you want. Just don’t be a [Richard] about it.

The incomparable George Carlin performing his classic routine, "Seven Dirty Words"
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