[Responding to having had his claim, that "fuck" started out as an acronym, shot down. See <a href="http://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/fuck.htm " target="_blank">Snopes.com</a> and <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/baloney.php " target="_blank">Etymology Online</a>]
You say "No it wasn't" yet you present little evidence to prove your assertion. How is it that you are so sure that my statement is incorrect, yet unable to convincingly present evidence that yours is correct? Was there no such thing as fornication under concent of the king? Can you present evidence that this acronym was not adopted for such occurances, as well as what you suggest?
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"Fornication Under Consent of the King"
I nominated this not so much because the claim was so silly, as for the response the guy had to having his claim demolished. Having been told by several people that his claim was wrong, he demands that they provide support - rather than doing about 10 seconds of Googling for himself. It's also odd that he focusses on this, which is an utterly trivial side-issue to the purpose of the thread *he* started, while making no further comment on the actual subject of his thread.
... So, what, is this explaining why 'Fuck' is an OK word to use so he can go around cursing people out and explain "Oh, no, it's alright... It's just an acronym!"?
Haha, yeah, it's not. There's a new book on that, actually.
It's basically the average of several German words that often started as fu and ended in ck g that meant "To strike swiftly" or "to move in and out" in a derogatory manner.
The abbreviations came later.
This takes me back to Camp Mountain View around 1954. After lights out one night one of our best and brightest began explaining how some words were ridiculously banned as "swear words". For instance, Dam just means a structure that holds water. Simple enough? And through nature, who's to say some were not built by God, himself. Bitch is a female dog, nothing nasty there. Cock? A rooster. Hell is a place, a proper noun. See where this is going with a cabin full of 10 year olds?KNOCKITTHEFUCKOFF!!!
Ah, the memories . . . the memories.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck
'The Oxford English Dictionary states that the ultimate etymology is uncertain, but that the word is "probably cognate" with a number of native Germanic words with meanings involving striking, rubbing, and having sex.'
An urban myth destroyed. And for my next trick, proving that it wasn't the "Blockbusters" quiz game host* and 2nd James Bond#, Bob Holness who played sax on Gerry Rafferty's tune "Baker Street":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Street_(song)#The_saxophone_solo
*- "Can I have a 'P' please, Bob?" "Can I have an 'E' please, Bob?" "I want 'U', Bob."
#- It was US actor Barry Nelson who was the first, on TV in 1954. Bob played the 2nd (in a South African radio play version) in 1957.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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