Cursing in English on Twitter: Errata

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  • page 4: “we find that curse words occurred at the rate of 1.15% on Twitter” should be “we find that curse words occurred at the rate of 0.80% on Twitter”
  • page 4: “The most popular curse word is fuck, which covers 34.73% of all the curse word occurrences, followed by shit (15.04%), ass (14.48%), bitch (10.34%), nigga (9.68%), hell (4.46%), whore (1.82%), dick (1.67%), piss (1.53%), and pussy (1.16%).” should be “The most popular curse word is fuck, which covers 33.57% of all the curse word occurrences, followed by shit (15.45%), ass (14.66%), bitch (10.67%), nigga (10.30%), hell (3.91%), whore (1.84%), dick (1.74%), piss (1.55%), and pussy (1.24%).”
  • page 4: “We find that the top seven curse words – fuck, shit, ass, bitch, nigga, hell and whore cover 90.55% of all the curse word occurrences.” should be “We find that the top seven curse words – fuck, shit, ass, bitch, nigga, hell and whore cover 90.40% of all the curse word occurrences.”
  • page 4: Figures 1 (Counts of curse words) and 2 (Cumulative distribution of curse words) had been updated with latest results
  • page 5, Table 2: “1.15% of all words” should be “0.80% of all words”
  • page 6: “the relative frequencies of top seven curse words have increased by 144.05%. In descending order of their relative increase of relative frequencies, top seven curse words rank as follows: nigga (262.55%), ass (200.70%), bitch (199.61%), shit (118.86%), whore (91.74%), fuck (81.93%) and hell (52.98%).” should be “the relative frequencies of top seven curse words have increased by 59.60%. In descending order of their relative increase of relative frequencies, top seven curse words rank as follows: ass (86.33%), nigga (78.17%), bitch (61.03%), shit (56.90%), fuck (50.85%), whore (34.54%) and hell (23.69%).”
  • page 6: “the relative frequencies of top seven curse words have increased by 10.28%. In descending order of their relative increase of relative frequencies, top seven words rank as follows: bitch (14.75%), shit (13.10%), nigga (11.54%), whore (9.64%), ass (9.40%), hell (7.08%) and fuck (6.45%).” should be “the relative frequencies of top seven curse words have increased by 10.36%. In descending order of their relative increase of relative frequencies, top seven words rank as follows: bitch (15.15%), shit (13.55%), nigga (12.41%), ass (10.37%), whore (10.30%), hell (7.53%) and fuck (7.16%).”