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Where the word "****" came from...
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| trance4life627 |
One of my good buddies told me an interesting tail of where the word originated, and I thought someone else might get a kick out of it too. Seems that some king back in the middle ages (In England) (I don't remember which king it was but my friend does) made a law where his greatest knights would have first dibbs on all the most beautiful maidens, the point was to create a country of strong and domanant people. The women they'd pick they'd write the word F.U.C.K. above their doors. The word stood for Fornication Under the Comand of the King.
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| mezzir |
also equally incorrect is the similar use of the acronym of 'for unlawful carnal knowledge' or something of the sort
| quote: | [] is a very old word, recorded in English since the 15th century (few acronyms predate the 20th century), with cognates in other Germanic languages. The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang (Random House, 1994, ISBN 0-394-54427-7) cites Middle Dutch fokken = "to thrust, copulate with"; Norwegian dialect fukka = "to copulate"; and Swedish dialect focka = "to strike, push, copulate" and fock = "penis". Although German ficken may enter the picture somehow, it is problematic in having e-grade, or umlaut, where all the others have o-grade or zero-grade of the vowel.
AHD1, following Pokorny, derived "feud", "fey", "fickle", "foe", and "" from an Indo-European root peig2 = "hostile"; but AHD2 and AHD3 have dropped this connection for "" and give no pre-Germanic etymon for it. Eric Partridge, in the 7th edition of Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (Macmillan, 1970), said that "" "almost certainly" comes from the Indo-European root *peuk- = "to prick" (which is the source of the English words "compunction", "expunge", "impugn", "poignant", "point", "pounce", "pugilist", "punctuate", "puncture", "pungent", and "pygmy"). Robert Claiborne, in The Roots of English: A Reader's Handbook of Word Origin (Times, 1989) agrees that this is "probably" the etymon. Problems with such theories include a distribution that suggests a North-Sea Germanic areal form rather than an inherited one; the murkiness of the phonetic relations; and the fact that no alleged cognate outside Germanic has sexual connotations. |
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| Xenocreator_PG_ |
| quote: | Originally posted by trance4life627
One of my good buddies told me an interesting tail of where the word originated, and I thought someone else might get a kick out of it too. Seems that some king back in the middle ages (In England) (I don't remember which king it was but my friend does) made a law where his greatest knights would have first dibbs on all the most beautiful maidens, the point was to create a country of strong and domanant people. The women they'd pick they'd write the word F.U.C.K. above their doors. The word stood for Fornication Under the Comand of the King.
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Interesting, but i dont believe it. |
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| *InVeRs3* |
Interesting.
The word vagina comes from the Latin word......vagina (pronounced wageena) which means sheath of a sword.
LEMMEH PUT MAH SOHRD IN UR SHEATH KIND MADDAM.:thepirate :eek: :D ;) :crazy: |
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| dj_bas |
| funny...my world history teacher said it had started during WW1...something about fornication and muck. basically a word to really make it sex dirty? |
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| LiGHT78 |
That is just too damn long. The most entertaining so far has been Fornication Under Command of the King, so I'm gonna stick with that. |
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| nchs09 |
| taht is the definition of ... |
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| DJ_TWiLiGHT |
| Formal Unwed Carnal Knowledge???? |
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| Aiwendil |
| quote: | Originally posted by LiGHT78
That is just too damn long. The most entertaining so far has been Fornication Under Command of the King, so I'm gonna stick with that. |
you just exceeded the sig size limit by about 2000% |
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| wwu.punisher |
| quote: | Originally posted by Aiwendil
you just exceeded the sig size limit by about 2000% |
Who cares? His sig is omgwtfbbq awesome. |
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| Aiwendil |
| yeah i just go crimp crazy over jessica alba dancing in a 2 second loop in someone's signature on TA. you see, i don't have the brain capacity to type "free porn vids" into google, so TA is all i have. |
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| nchs09 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Aiwendil
yeah i just go crimp crazy over jessica alba dancing in a 2 second loop in someone's signature on TA. you see, i don't have the brain capacity to type "free porn vids" into google, so TA is all i have. |
google for porn.. n00b |
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