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- From: richardg@idca.tds.philips.nl (Richard Grear)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: The word FUCK
- Message-ID: <richardg.728050278@tcpsrv.syssup.tds.philips.nl>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 12:11:18 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.201233.8416@Princeton.EDU> <727839462snx@sloth.equinox.gen.nz>
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- Reply-To: richardg@nofssrv.syssup.tds.philips.nl (Richard Grear)
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- In <727839462snx@sloth.equinox.gen.nz> hairy@sloth.equinox.gen.nz (Phil Anderson) writes:
- Just my 2d worth, but could the work FUCK not have originated from the
- low german (as many of the other words did)? I know that in Dutch a "fokker"
- is a breeder of e.g. horses or dogs.
-
- Opinions?
-
-
- > > >I've heard from an artsie friend that the original inhabitants of Britain
- > > >(the Angles and Saxons) used the word FUCK as a normal part of their
- > > >language.
- > >
- > > Well, they certainly didn't write it, and there are quite a few Anglo-Saxon
- > > texts.
-
- >What word did they use? I ask out of pure prurience...
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