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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

F*cking F*ck


Did you know that the F word was a difficult word to trace until recently? It looks like the origin of the F*** was found first in a 15th century poem written in bastard Latin (yeah you heard me right!);

"Non sunt in celi
quia fuccant uuiuys of heli"

Apparently meaning (sorry I can't confirm it): "They (the monks) are not in heaven because they fuck the wives of (the town of) Ely."
Another early example of F***ing comes from Scottish, (of Scandinavian origin) from a word resembling to a Norwegian dialect "fukka" meaning "copulate," or Swedish dialect "fock" meaning "penis."

Anyways... For those who wants more details about F*ck: you can look on the Online Etymology Dictionary: here.

At least it does not directly come from French (My beautiful mother tongue is not based on a bastard latin... No!)