The F-word. How often do you use it?

[barbaro]

Here is a brief 2 minute overview of the F-word. The claim is that the word comes from the German word, "Frichen."

But seriously, how often do you......use the F-word?

Ever think about it?

Do you use it every day? If so, how many times.

Rarely use it?

Never?

[Fuzzy Bob]

How often do I use it?.......No feckin' idea

[FlyFree]

Never, disgusting it is.

[AntRobertson]

Where's the 'Stupid fcuking poll' option?

[UpTooYou]

Fcuk nose how often!

[Nawty]

My wife uses it every night...

[Spin]

I laughed out loud at that, I used to have a girlfriend named Shirley too and she really did talk too fucking much

[sunsetter]

fuck,it means to fornicate under consent of the king, nowt to do with zee germans

i do swear alot, rubs off on the missus though which is not good

[jandajoy]

The Oxford English Dictionary states that the ultimate etymology is uncertain, but that the word is "probably cognate" with a number of native Germanic words with meanings involving striking, rubbing, and having sex.[1]
Flen flyys and freris

The usually accepted first known occurrence is in code in a poem in a mixture of Latin and English composed some time before 1500. The poem, which satirizes the Carmelite friars of Cambridge, England, takes its title, "Flen flyys", from the first words of its opening line, Flen, flyys, and freris (= "Fleas, flies, and friars"). The line that contains fuck reads Non sunt in coeli, quia gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk. Removing the substitution cipher (here, replacing each letter by the next letter in alphabetical order, as the English alphabet was then) on the phrase "gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk" yields non sunt in coeli, quia fvccant vvivys of heli, which translated means, "They are not in heaven because they fuck wives of Ely".[2] The phrase was coded likely because it accused some Church personnel of misbehaving; it is uncertain to what extent the word fuck was considered acceptable at the time. (The stem of fvccant is an English word used as Latin: English medieval Latin has many examples of writers using English words when they did not know the Latin word: "workmannus" is an example.)
John le Fucker

A man's name, John le Fucker, is said to be reported from AD 1278, but the report is doubtful: an email discussion on Linguist List says:

This name has been exhaustively argued over ... The "John le Fucker" reference first appears in Carl Buck's 1949 Indo-European dictionary. Buck does not supply a citation as to where he found the name. No one has subsequently found the manuscript in which it is alleged to have appeared. If the citation is genuine and not an error, it is most likely a spelling variant of "fulcher", meaning soldier.[3]

Anglo-Saxon

An Anglo-Saxon charter[4][5] granted by Offa, king of Mercia, dated AD 772, granting land at Bexhill, Sussex to a bishop, includes this text in a mixture of Anglo-Saxon language and Latin:

Þonne syndon þa gauolland þas utlandes into Bexlea in hiis locis qui appellantur hiis nominibus: on Berna hornan .iii. hida, on Wyrtlesham .i., on Ibbanhyrste .i., on Croghyrste .viii., on Hrigce .i., on Gyllingan .ii., on Fuccerham 7 and on Blacanbrocan .i., on Ikelesham .iii.; Then the tax-lands of the outland belonging to Bexley are in these places which are called by these names: at Barnhorne 3 hides, at Wyrtlesham [Worsham farm near Bexhill ] 1, at Ibbanhyrst 1, at Crowhurst 8, at (Rye? The ridge north of Hastings?) 1, at Gillingham 2, at Fuccerham and at Blackbrook [may be Black Brooks in Westfield village just north of Hastings ] 1, at Icklesham 3.

The placename Fuccerham looks like either "the home (hām) of the fucker or fuckers" or "the enclosed pasture (hamm) of the fucker or fuckers", who may have been a once-notorious man, or a locally well-known stud male animal, or a group of such, or something unrelated.[citation needed]
Older etymology

Via Germanic

The word has probable cognates in other Germanic languages, such as German ficken (to fuck); Dutch fokken (to breed, to strike, to beget); dialectal Norwegian fukka (to copulate), and dialectal Swedish fokka (to strike, to copulate) and fock (penis).[1] This points to a possible etymology where Common Germanic fuk– comes from an Indo-European root meaning "to strike", cognate with non-Germanic words such as Latin pugnus "fist".[1] By reverse application of Grimm's law, this hypothetical root has the form *pug–. In early Proto-Germanic the word was likely used at first as a slang or euphemistic replacement for an older word for intercourse, and then became the usual word for intercourse.[citation needed]
Yet another possible etymology is from the Old High German word pfluog, meaning "to plow, as in a field" (pronounced similarly to "fuk-"). This is supported in part by a book by Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious: A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido, in which he discusses the "primitive play of words" and the phallic representation of the plough, including its appearance on a vase found in an archaeological dig near Florence, Italy, which depicts six ithyphallic (erect-penised) men carrying a plow.
The original Indo-European root for to copulate is likely to be * h3yebh– or *h3eybh–, which is attested in Sanskrit यभति (yabhati), Russian ебать (yebat'), Polish jebać, and Serbian jebati, among others: compare the Greek verb οἴφω (oíphō) = "I have sex with", and the Greek noun Ζέφυρος (Zéphyros) (which references a Greek belief that the west wind Zephyrus caused pregnancy).
Via Latin or Greek

• Other possible connections are to Latin fūtuere (almost exactly the same meaning as the English verb "to fuck"); but it would have to be explained how the word reached Scandinavia from Roman contact, and how the t became k.[citation needed] From fūtuere came French foutre, Catalan fotre, Italian fottere, Romanian futere, vulgar peninsular Spanish follar and joder, and Portuguese foder. However, there is considerable doubt and no clear lineage for these derivations. These roots, even if cognates, are not the original Indo-European word for to copulate, but Wayland Young (who agrees that these words are related) argues that they derive from the Indo-European *bhu– or *bhug– ("be", "become"), or as causative "create" [see Young, 1964]. A possible intermediate might be a Latin 4th-declension verbal noun *fūtus, with possible meanings including "act of (pro)creating".
• A derivation from Latin facere = "to do", "to make" has been suggested.[citation needed]
• Greek phyō (φυω) has various meanings, including (of a man) "to beget", or (of a woman), "to give birth to".[6] Its perfect tense pephyka (πεφυκα) can be likened to "fuck" and its equivalents in other Germanic languages.[6]

[jandajoy]

fuck,it means to fornicate under consent of the king, nowt to do with zee germans

Afraid not, old mate.

[the dogcatcher]

Ermm, just about every other word I use is "fuck".

[the dogcatcher]

fuck,it means to fornicate under consent of the king, nowt to do with zee germans

Afraid not, old mate.

Used to be you needed permission to breed.

People used to put a sign outside their huts when they were at it that said
"fornicating under concent of king".
Prob not the the origin though but don't think that the german for the word fuck is either.
Prob the other way round me thinks?

[oldgit]

When I say fuck? to the wife is borrocks a yes or a no?

[Fuzzy Bob]

fuck,it means to fornicate under consent of the king, nowt to do with zee germans

Afraid not, old mate.

Used to be you needed permission to breed.

People used to put a sign outside their huts when they were at it that said
"fornicating under concent of king".
Prob not the the origin though but don't think that the german for the word fuck is either.
Prob the other way round me thinks?

From Wikipedia Fuck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

False etymologies

One reason that the word fuck is so hard to trace etymologically is that it was used far more extensively in common speech than in easily traceable written forms. There are several urban-legend false etymologies postulating an acronymic origin for the word. None of these acronyms were ever heard before the 1960s, according to the authoritative lexicographical work The F-Word, and thus are backronyms. In any event, the word fuck has been in use far too long for some of these supposed origins to be possible. Some of these urban legends are that the word fuck came from Irish law. If a couple were caught committing adultery, they would be punished "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge In the Nude", with "FUCKIN" written on the stocks above them to denote the crime. Another theory is that of a royal permission. During the Black Death in the Middle Ages, towns were trying to control populations and their interactions. Since uncontaminated resources were scarce, many towns required permission to have children. Hence, the legend goes, that couples that were having children were required to first obtain royal permission (usually from a local magistrate or lord) and then place a sign somewhere visible from the road in their home that said "Fornicating Under Consent of King", which was later shortened to "FUCK". This story is hard to document but has persisted in oral and literary traditions for many years; however, it has been demonstrated to be an urban legend.[7]
The word "fuck" did not come from any of:

• "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)

[Cujo]

People used to put a sign outside their huts when they were at it that said
"fornicating under concent of king".
Prob not the the origin though but don't think that the german for the word fuck is either.
Prob the other way round me thinks?

Prob someone's been pulling your leg methinks.

People used to put a sign outside their huts when they were at it that said
"fornicating under concent of king".

Thanks for the laugh though.

[larvidchr]

Talking to much with English people, their bad habits/language rub's off a bit, trying my best not to use it, although there is times where it is entirely appropriate/deserved, it do sound awful when used as part of normal conversation.

[Bung]

You need this word and so sometimes you have to use it as people are so fucking stupid.

Mostly driving.

[Nawty]

That would be fucok then...

[jandajoy]

[jandajoy]

[Smug Farang Bore]

All the fuckin time but as has been pointed out rubs off on the wife who uses it at the wrong time and puts the word in the wrong part of the sentence.....cvnt...!

[DrAndy]

Ermm, fuk just fukin about fukin every fukin other fukin word fuk I fukin use is "fuck".

not easy, is it?

[melvbot]

I've had people ask me if I suffer from tourrettes in some shape or form, Nuff said

[jandajoy]

All the fuckin time but as has been pointed out rubs off on the wife who uses it at the wrong time and puts the word in the wrong part of the sentence.

Damn right.

I took the misses to the Uk a few years back to meet my Dad.

Came down in the morning to see 2 silent confused people.

Dad, a retired Anglican vicar and Joy, a small Thai lady with not much English.

Whilst making myself a coffee, I asked what was wrong?

Dad; "Nothing, nothing at all. Everything's fine. I was just chatting with little Joy"

Joy; " Yes, he we speaking but stop when I say "Fuck me dead". Why?"

I just cracked up........

[Ratchaburi]

I use A Duut ( You asshole ) a lot when I am driving.