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RE: the f-word




"Peter T. Chattaway" <petert at interchange_ubc.ca> offered the folowing in 
answer to:

> > anybody know the true origin of this colourful word?

>    _Fuck_ is a word of Germanic origin. It is related to words in several
>    other Germanic languages, such as Dutch, German, and Swedish, that have
>    sexual meanings as well as meanings like 'to strike' or 'to thrust'.
>    . . . The earliest suggestion of an acronymic etymology for _fuck_
>    appears to be in the 1960s. Despite the importance of the F-word,
>    scholars have yet to discover an example of _fuck_ (or any of its
>    Germanic relatives) before the fifteenth century.
>
>    -- Jesse Sheidlower, _The F Word_, Random House, 1995, pages xxiv-xxv.
>
As a dutchman i cannot think of any words in my tongue that have such 
meanings (spelled or sounding like or similar to f-u-c-k.

Does this give a good impression of me?  ;)

Mark

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