Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site erix.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!mcvax!enea!erix!mike From: mike@erix.UUCP (Mike Williams) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d,net.nlang Subject: Re: Origin of that strongest of words Message-ID: <655@erix.UUCP> Date: Fri, 26-Oct-84 10:40:54 EST Article-I.D.: erix.655 Posted: Fri Oct 26 10:40:54 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Nov-84 02:45:30 EST References: <208@turing.UUCP> <17@mot.UUCP> Organization: L M Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 3 > The loss of the "r" is analogous to the loss of the "r" in "arse". Note that in British English we havn't lost the "r" in arse. Nor have we lost the Aaaaaaah in f*****ing :-)