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Also was fuck searched as a word on its own? Because if you include compound words with fuck you are going to catch a long tail of interesting profanity, especially amongst programmers.

You'd want to whitelist against the Scunthorpe Problem though.

Add "wtf" to this list and you match more than 50% of all commit messages ;-)

Oh no, wtf is professional terminology, cannot remove.

And if one goes that far, one would have to include variant spellings, because in the heat of the moment of cursing an opaque or broken piece of code, a programmer is likely to froth at the keyboard.

we may need to implement Levenshtein Distance for this

then you run into the Duck Hunt problem.

Swearing and cursing aren't the same things.

Damn is a curse, but not actually considered a swear word in most parts of the world.