Ya, my parents tried the soap thing, but my older brother got so used to the taste that he used to brush his teeth with it . After that they gave up on washing our months out with soap. Probably why f*ck is just another adjective to me. This was a quote by Rider in Black and it caught my attention. It just goes to show how the word has changed. In the correct context Fuck is a verb, a doing word but in the general use today it is used as a derogitory description of someone or something. But this was not always the case.
Some time ago I worked with a lexicographer. This is a person trained in the compilation of dictionaries. This was in my younger days and we were both working on a drilling rig. Why this guy was working on a rig I do not recall. Can not even remember his name so I will call him Lex. What he did not know about words was not worth knowing. Anyway to cut a long story short we had just come of a twelve hour shift and was due for a five day break. So we wandered off to the local. In no time the stories were flowing as much as the gin. Somewhere in this conversation the word fuck came up. Excuse the pun. That's both puns if you have not figured that out.
Lex being a fountain of knowledge gave us the orogin of the F word. Actualy there are two orogins but the second I have never been able to confirm.
It seems that in the Victorian era useing the word Carnal had as much the same sort of reputation as the word Fuck has today. Not the sort of word you want to go shouting out from the roof tops. Carnel was not printed in as much the same way as fuck is not printed today and for much the same reasons. So when someone was charged For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, it was printed in the paper as F.U.C.K.
The second orogin of the word and Lex informed us that this is correct that a fuck was a bag used in ancient times for sowing seed. Now there have been times when I have been tempted to ask a librarian if she (most librarians are women) knows the orogin of the word but at the risk of being tossed out of a library I have never been game, but if you think of it, men sowing there wild oates may have been something entirely different in ancient times than today. Not as much fun then as it is now.
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Originally Posted by MikeL
I've been told it is now one of the most commonly used English swear words used internationally
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(just yanking you chain Mike). Probably thought you articles were too much of a religiously bias nature
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