The top 10 most offensive British profanities, according to a 2000 study:

1. cunt
2. motherfucker
3. fuck
4. wanker
5. nigger
6. bastard
7. prick
8. bollocks
9. arsehole
10. Paki

Only 10 percent regarded crap as “very severe”; 32 percent said it was “not swearing.”