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From: hawk@oliven.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes,net.nlang
Subject: Re: Origin of `fuck'
Message-ID: <545@oliven.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Sep-84 18:55:07 EDT
Article-I.D.: oliven.545
Posted: Mon Sep 17 18:55:07 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 08:49:57 EDT
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Organization: University of Waikiki
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Keywords: `fuck', etymology, acronyms


	It comes from an old
	Germanic verb `ficken/fucken', to strike or penatrate,
	whose slang meaning was to copulate. 
	Thus.
	`fuck' did not orginate as a police blotter acronym for
	"for unlawful carnal knowledge" or form any such acronym
	or colorful modern origin as some popular stories would
	have us believe.

Awe, you spoilsport. :-)

rick
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