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Originally Posted by alexander
The word "fuck" was originally a quite acceptable word and was recorded in the english dictionary as early as 1598. The word most likely comes from the Old German "ficken/fucken", meaning "to strike or penetrate". Unfortunately through 1800ds the word fell behind the "veil of decency" until in 1785 it was recorded in Francis George's Dictionary of Vulgar Words...
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Anglo saxon words were felt to be uncooth by the Normans. Hence we have many duplicate words for the same thing 'pig' 'pork' etc.
When the historical, old, charming, folk-songs talk of lads and lasses getting into "
country matters" you can imagine what they are talking about.
Much English archeology is based on the 'place names' of localities. The names can indicate who was living in those places -anglo ,celt, norman,viking, saxon etc. There is even an eridite journal on 'place names'.
So much history for such a tiny island.
