Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!gmf From: gmf@uvacs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: Origin of that strongest of words Message-ID: <1559@uvacs.UUCP> Date: Sat, 6-Oct-84 15:23:18 EDT Article-I.D.: uvacs.1559 Posted: Sat Oct 6 15:23:18 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 8-Oct-84 04:53:51 EDT Lines: 17 [The end is not yet] >> ... the current slang word for sexual intercourse is "neuken" ... > Where I come from (Scotland, a slang word for sexual intercourse > is 'nookie'. Gives more credence to the argument that English is > just a bastardised form of Dutch. Where I came from (Minnesota, U.S.A.), a slang word for sexual intercourse was "nookie", at least as early as the 1930's. The earliest date for this usage in Wentworth & Flexner's Dictionary of American Slang is 1928. When did you have in mind that English became a bastardized Dutch? Gordon Fisher ...uvacs!gmf