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What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves by Benjamin K. Bergen

What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves audiobook runs 8.8 hours unabridged, narrated by Benjamin K. Bergen (about 5.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

8.8listening hrs
Mindfulness & Meditationstore shelf
2016released
Free for new listeners

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1 hour / day9 days
2 hours / day5 days
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What our data says

  • At 8.8 hours, it runs longer than 88% of the 8,218 Mindfulness & Meditation audiobooks in our catalog.

Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves is an audiobook by Benjamin K. Bergen: a 8.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Benjamin K. Bergen, released October 1, 2016, on the Mindfulness & Meditation and Self-Development shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
8.8 hrs
Narrated by
Benjamin K. Bergen
Released
October 1, 2016
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Mindfulness & Meditation, Self-Development
ISBN
9781469065588

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves audiobook?

What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves runs 8.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.9 hours.

Is the What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves audiobook free?

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Who narrates What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves?

What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves is narrated by Benjamin K. Bergen.