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Most popular teen book characters use most profanity, BYU study says

May 23, 2012
source: Salt Lake Tribune

MR says: Too bad.

"Fair is foul and foul is fair" takes on a new meaning in books written for adolescents as the fairest characters take on the foulest language, according to a new study.

The study published in the May 18 edition of Mass Communication and Society revealed that most of the profanity in adolescent novels comes from the most-popular, wealthy and attractive characters.

Brigham Young University professor Sarah Coyne analyzed the top 40 novels on The New York Times best-seller list for teenagers from 2008.

Read the rest of this story at sltrib.com

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