Introduction
Language is considered to be the most powerful tool of communication but as Eckert (2004) puts it, “language is not a static resource” (p. 5). In agreement with sociolinguistics it has been established that a language consists of both good and bad words, swear words. Swear words are proven to be an inevitable part of linguistics yet often looked upon as bad manners especially if they are being uttered by teenagers, who adults refer to as irresponsible when it comes to their everyday use of language (Eckert, 2004, p. 8). However, according to Eckert (2004), this should be seen as nothing more than adolescents’ way of interpreting and maintaining social interactions and norms in a community as our choice of linguistic resources simultaneously signals how we behave, where we are from and who we choose to spend our time with (p. 9). Linguists are frequently faced with the belief that certain speakers, adolescents in particular, have an illogical parlance. However, it can clearly be debated whether or not these judgments have any deeper value as they are commonly based on selective observations and biased judgments of what those observations mean. This essay aims to deal with those beliefs by examining whether or not adolescents are more likely to use swear words in their speech.

Material
The primary material in this essay is based on information retrieved from the British National Corpus. British National Corpus, often referred to as BNC, is a 100 million-word collection of samples of written and spoken British English, gathered during the later part of the 20th century (The British National Corpus, 1992). The material that is being examined in this essay consists of swear words limited to the spoken British English language and each swear word represents itself in a separate category. The samples consist of a wide range of sources across six age groups