Swear count

Posted on | August 21, 2007 | 37 Comments

Apologies for the many short posts yesterday but I really am beavering away on the manuscript. I’m probably going to be a bit obsessed until I send it in but what can you do? It’s an 18 hour a day part of my life.

One interesting thing is a feature in the program I’m using to write it. Not being a fan of Microsoft Word or the scabby, slow as fuck open source alternative, I’m using a thing called Scrivener which is very nice and I would recommend it to anyone using a Mac. As well as the word count (come on, come on), there’s a ‘word frequency’ section so I thought I’d tot up the swear word usage up to this point.

Curse Count

arse – 13
arsehole – 1
bastard -6
bollocks -7
cecilia – 1
cock – 3
cockbadger – 1
cunt – 25
cunting – 1
cunts – 18
flaps – 2
fuck – 45
fucked – 4
fucker – 9
fuckers – 6
fucking – 60
fuckpig – 1
fuuuuuuuck – 1
gee – 4
gobshite – 3
harney – 1
jesus – 34
piss – 11
prick – 2
rice – 22
shit – 19
shitface – 1
shite – 15
shitebag – 1
shitehawk – 1
twats – 3
wank – 1
wanky – 1

The rest is just pure fucking poetry. Not literally, of course. Poems are gay.

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37 Responses to “Swear count”

  1. Bearhunter
    August 21st, 2007 @ 12:21 am

    I see the cunts outnumber the pricks by 12.5 to one. That’s some fucking world yer living in 20….

  2. manuel
    August 21st, 2007 @ 12:39 am

    I would have expected more cock too. Shitehawk is of course genius, been using it since I was a lad. Ah happy days, just me and ol shitehawk messing about with a football.

    cecilia – made me giggle….

  3. comb over
    August 21st, 2007 @ 12:41 am

    you left out cunt-bubble it is a favorite of mine feel free to use it in your book, what is a cunt bubble ,ie ;any T,D
    any civil servant
    any one from r,t,e
    the ban garda who fined me €60 last week for {forgetting }cough ,to tax my car

  4. Maggot
    August 21st, 2007 @ 1:24 am

    Where does beaver stand ?

  5. Joan of Argghh
    August 21st, 2007 @ 2:38 am

    Only three twats in your life? Lucky, that.

  6. Yacuncha
    August 21st, 2007 @ 7:10 am

    cunt – 25
    jesus – 34

    Is this a religious book? Are you planning on an edition being published by Veritas?

  7. size ten
    August 21st, 2007 @ 7:32 am

    What about D section, Donegal, Derry, Down!

  8. size ten
    August 21st, 2007 @ 7:36 am

    Oh, I see you have alresdy covered it, under cunts!

  9. scorchio
    August 21st, 2007 @ 7:38 am

    What ?
    Not 1 Ballbag, Poxbottle or Geebag
    You can’t win the MAN BOOKER prize without them
    You couldn’t even win a PULITZER
    not even if you were a septic tank

  10. Johnny5
    August 21st, 2007 @ 8:28 am

    Not one geebag.

    You fucking heathen.

  11. fatmammycat
    August 21st, 2007 @ 8:39 am

    What Johnny5 said. Shit, now I feel so unclean.
    And where is the cuntbutler? Is the library with a smoking gun? Get him would you.

  12. Twenty Major
    August 21st, 2007 @ 8:41 am

    I’m saving geebag for the epic finale.

  13. daniel
    August 21st, 2007 @ 8:43 am

    Was thinking the same as Yacuncha as well, but then I see the fuck and fucking count is way higher. You don’t want to those religious people to replicate that much, do you?

  14. scorchio
    August 21st, 2007 @ 8:52 am

    Sweet Twenty,I’ll have 10 copies

  15. itchybollix
    August 21st, 2007 @ 10:40 am

    Alliteration?

    That Blank Chequebook Bollix Bertie

  16. Groucho
    August 21st, 2007 @ 11:12 am

    Well done Twenty I can see that you’re a real swear wordsmith -ah’ bum! That’s one you have omitted?

  17. Lung the Younger
    August 21st, 2007 @ 11:22 am

    Pretty impressive list Twenty. It’ll be even more impressive when you finish the second paragraph.

  18. elly parker
    August 21st, 2007 @ 12:06 pm

    Well that blows the idea of giving a copy to grannymar for her birthday – if she read it then she’d only end up cuffing you across the head at the next blog awards…

  19. Mad Dog
    August 21st, 2007 @ 12:13 pm

    “Cecilia”…?

    Is this a new addition to the cussword lexicon or are you talking about your ex?

  20. Littlesapling
    August 21st, 2007 @ 12:15 pm

    Thats some good cursin right there Twenty..I bet that was just the dedication at the start of the book though…

  21. Maggot
    August 21st, 2007 @ 1:24 pm

    Careful Mad Dog – the Ahern girls brng back terible meemories for Twenty – being thrown over by Georgina for Nicky Byrne was bad enough, but Cecilia pushed him right to the edge!

  22. Johnny5
    August 21st, 2007 @ 1:30 pm

    If you’re using geebag, I want royalties as I invented the word.

  23. Walter Ego
    August 21st, 2007 @ 1:52 pm

    Frankly, I’m disappointed there are no piss-flaps, minge, gooch or shite-pipes in there somewhere. Nevermind, I’ll probably still flick through a copy at some stage.

  24. macdara
    August 21st, 2007 @ 1:58 pm

    Its sounding better and better each day.

  25. S
    August 21st, 2007 @ 2:20 pm

    Rice ??????

  26. The Hangar Queen
    August 21st, 2007 @ 2:33 pm

    “I would have expected more cock too.” Oh reeeaally Manuel? The things you learn..

  27. Sinéad
    August 21st, 2007 @ 2:42 pm

    Johnny 5 and FMC are after my swearword heart with “geebag”. “Nob jockey” is also a favourite of mine.

  28. porridge
    August 21st, 2007 @ 3:50 pm

    got to have some nice compound curses, such as cocksmokingcuntbustinghorseflaps – always guaranteed to impress. if you’re looking for tips, there’s that toll trolls thing going round.

  29. beady
    August 21st, 2007 @ 5:28 pm

    I was once visiting a friend and his sister answered th door… The two were obviously mid-argument over somehting or other…

    As she opened the door she whas simultaneoulsy screaming at him in the next room “….and you watch your goddamn motherfucking language you bastard…”

    She then turned to us and smiled sweetly and just said “Hi – come in…”

  30. Mad Dog
    August 21st, 2007 @ 6:20 pm

    Maggot: Heh, thanks for the advice. I won’t mention the C word ever again on these pages.

  31. Maggot
    August 21st, 2007 @ 6:24 pm

    Westlife is a no no as well Mad Dog.

  32. Mad Dog
    August 21st, 2007 @ 11:25 pm

    Westlife?

    Que? Dare I ask…?

    Wait a minute, I’ve just Googled it/them. A wanky, heinously popular band from Sligo it seems. Living in Seattle means that, mercifully, I’ve been spared this drivel. Thank you, Maggot, for updating me on popular culture. Twenty, sorry but the discussion on this lot in now closed.

  33. James Hooker
    August 22nd, 2007 @ 9:21 am

    Twenty
    Do you ever get “writers bl…………

  34. Twenty Major
    August 22nd, 2007 @ 9:25 am

    Not very of

  35. A. Coring-Bunt
    August 22nd, 2007 @ 6:11 pm

    It would be good if you could export it to Excel, then you could make a nice pie chart or bar graph out of the data.

  36. Head Rambles » Blog Archive » Do not read if you’re easily offended
    September 11th, 2007 @ 12:18 pm

    [...] a cunt that they will be as good a writer as he is. They are best ignored. Twenty actually does a swear count in a book he is writing, which seems to prove a point [...]

  37. Head Rambles » Blog Archive » Do not read if you’re easily offended
    September 11th, 2007 @ 12:18 pm

    [...] a cunt that they will be as good a writer as he is. They are best ignored. Twenty actually does a swear count in a book he is writing, which seems to prove a point [...]

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