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Coming soon, a linguist's guide to obscenities

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The National Science Foundation is paying more than $200,000 for a study whose results may be unprintable. Christopher Potts , a linguist at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, will catalog and analyze the use of obscenities, vulgarities, and racial epithets as well as titles and honorifics.

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