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From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny)
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Subject: The word F*CK
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Date: Fri, 14-Sep-84 20:45:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 14 20:45:00 1984
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	It is funny to think the word "fuck" may be an acronm, but
it is also not true.  According to the American Heritage Dictionary:

	Middle English: fucken; A Germanic verb originally meaning
"strike", "move quickly", "penetrate". 

	Germanic words for body functions and eliminations are taboo.
While "fornicate", "urinate", "deficate", and "saliva" are socially
acceptable their Germanic equivalents are not.  Probably because
of the Norman conquest, when English (a Germanic language), lost
its status.

-- 
"Damn, more bats  ... Someone get me a ruler!"

	Don Steiny - Personetics @ (408) 425-0382
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