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From: jim@haring.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Origin of that strongest of words
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Date: Wed, 3-Oct-84 01:13:58 EDT
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> One thing that complicates the theory is that the current slang word
> for sexual intercourse is "neuken", and was in that time an accepted word.
> It turned into slang later.

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.

NOW I know what she was saying....

Jim McKie    Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam   mcvax!jim