And the definitive answer (pretty much) on the etymology of "fuck", from the Macquarie Dictionary (the definitive source for spoken and written English here in Australia) is... Noting the last sent ence, sorry to disappoint all of you, BTW.
"[early modern English fuc, fuk, from Middle English fuken (of a male) to have sex. Cognate with Middle Dutch fokken, Norwegian dialect fukka, Swedish dialect focka, Dutch fokken to breed cattle, dogs, etc. (hence tha surname Fokker lit., breeder), and thus representing a common Teutonic ancestor. The German ficken, is possi bly from the same source. Postulated cognates outside Teutonic are generally to words within the semantic area of `beat', `stri ke', `prick', etc., e.g. Latin pungere to prick, Greek pygmé fist, though Calvert Watkins in Heritage Illustrated Dictionary ( 1969) derives it from the Indo-European root *peig- evil-minded, hostile, and adduces cognates with fickle, foe, fey and feud , words all Germanic in origin. Absolutely NOT derived from a supposed acronym such as For Unlawful Carna l Knowledge, or Fornication Under the Consent of the King]" So there you go! Steve > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephenie Hamilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, 30 October 2001 4:25 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Profanity (Was Re: beauuuuutiful Friday) > > > i heard it meant "Fornication Under [the] Crown [of the] King.....but i > could be wrong...it has happened once or twice [or more] before > ~~ > steph ===================================================== Stephen Collins, Technical Consultant - ACIS (Australia) Allaire Certified ColdFusion 5 Developer Work : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ UIN : 56321783 Yahoo! : trib "Before I got into triathlon, I was a normal person." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
