Expletive infixation:A simple rule is that the insertion occurs at a syllable boundary, usually just before the primary stressed syllable. Thus, one hears abso-fuckin-lutely rather than *ab-fuckin-solutely. This rule is insufficient to describe examples such as un-fuckin-believable (not *unbe-fuckin-lievable), however, so modifications to this rule
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