When you call a company and get a recording that your conversation may be monitored, did you ever think it was to assess your politeness?
Me, neither, but it seems that a mobile technology firm did just that, examining more than 600,000 phone calls to businesses for words like “please,” “thank you,” and “fuck off.” Their analysis showed that Ohioans cursed the most, roughly once every 150 calls. Washingtonians — the folks from the left-hand corner of the country, not from here in the capital — cursed at a rate half that. Carolinians, North and South, meanwhile, are the most courteous.
As someone who curses and is Canadian, I’m not sure if I believe profanity and politeness are mutually exclusive.
