{"id":205736,"date":"2026-04-22T04:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T04:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205736\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T04:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T04:49:09","slug":"quiz-can-you-tell-real-british-insults-from-fakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205736\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiz: Can You Tell Real British Insults From Fakes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do I snub thee? Some British researchers are counting the ways, asking people around the country to send them swear words and insults that might be little known to outsiders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re really interested in those words that only make sense if you\u2019re from a particular place,\u201d said Chris Montgomery, a senior lecturer at the University of Sheffield who is leading the endeavor along with Modern Toss, an arts group.<\/p>\n<p>Their hope, Dr. Montgomery said, is to preserve the diversity of curse words being used around Britain, particularly if they are obscure. \u201cIt\u2019s a real window on people\u2019s creativity with language,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Can you find the genuine British insult among the fakes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How do I snub thee? Some British researchers are counting the ways, asking people around the country to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[80607,81555,14415,9,11,10,3730],"class_list":{"0":"post-205736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-archives-and-records","9":"tag-content-type-quiz","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-research"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}