You filthy people you

Hot breaking news from Gawker.com: some guy with way too much time on his hands has graphed the use of dirty words in the Guardian. It seems that since 2005, use of the word "shit" has skyrocketed to alarming levels in the paper's pages. "Fuck" has leveled off after a dramatic spike in the 2002-2005 era (Iraq war, no doubt), while "arse" is in decline.

I think the Scott Trust should look into whether there is a causal relationship between the effort to expand into America and the use of the s-word. After all, it's a word that we Yanks toss around far more frequently than you blokes, in my experience. You say odd things like "shite." We use "shit" liberally as virtually every major part of speech. Arguing against any relationship is the absence of the word "sucks," a cherished American fave. I don't think any British person ever has said of anything that it sucks. You have nice words like "naf" that get across the same idea.