SayidSomal Posted January 4, 2010 The F-Word while now largely accepted as an integral part of the English language, still confounds, provokes, and scandalizes. How did it come about? here are some of the possibilities: "F.U.C.K." originated in the 1800's in London, when they used to charge prostitutes "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge". So officer got sick and tired of writing those, um, lessee, 26 characters, not including spaces, so it got abbreviated **** and stuck. In ancient as the british sailors spent a lot of time on seas - So some of them resorted to homosexuality, which was crime until an unwritten law was introduced in the navy, which basically said: sailors were allowed to engage in homosexuality on the birthdates of king they were given a placard that they hung on their door while they were having sex. The placard had F.*.*.*. (Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it. and many others each with story of its own: "File Under Carnal Knowledge" "Fornication Under the Christian King" "Fornication Under the Command of the King" "Fornication Under Carnal/Cardinal Knowledge" "False Use of Carnal Knowledge" "Felonious Use of Carnal Knowledge" "Felonious Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" "Full-On Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" "Found Under Carnal Knowledge" "Found Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" "Forced Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" (referring to the crime of rape) could you believe this was part of our inset today??? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sherban Shabeel Posted January 5, 2010 It's all bullshit. The word **** has been around at least since the 1500s. It meant pretty much what it means today, but it's not really clear whether it was considered as profane. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jacaylbaro Posted January 5, 2010 The F Word ................ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
