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pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Surgoshan on 15 Sep 2009, 08:24 ---a word, with a very, very long history.
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The OED only dates it from 1568, and another author has a citation from 1528 - so not so very long.
Surgoshan:
Given that it's a bad word, and was banned in print by law for many years, rarity in print isn't surprising.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=fuck
It's at least 300 years older than that, and almost certainly older still in fact.
pwhodges:
That link quotes similar dates to mine, but then says "but presumably it is a much more ancient word than that" which is by no means certain; other scholars generally agree that the proper name quoted at an earlier date is not linked to the word. There were other words in use previously which fell out of use as fuck became prevalent.
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: akronnick on 15 Sep 2009, 06:44 ---
--- Quote from: jonarus_drakus on 15 Sep 2009, 05:44 ---FUCK isnt actualy a word, its an acronim
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On the contrary, the verb to fuck comes to us from the German ficken (to fuck) with cognates in Dutch (fokken) , Norweigein, (fukka) and Swedish (fokka.)
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I always preferred "Bumpsen" (sp?) from the movie Cabaret...
Ahh, Liza... and Michael York... and Joel Gray...
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akronnick:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 15 Sep 2009, 08:36 ---The OED only dates it from 1568, and another author has a citation from 1528 - so not so very long.
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And the Acronym theory can only be traced to the 1960's.
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