mind your fucking language

What's the big fucking deal? Well I wanted to know so for today, I have researched into the origins of the word "fuck." As we all know, fuck is the grand mal of curse words. The most obscene of obsceneities. The most vulgar or verbs. It's fucking bad, but this may have not always been the case.

It is believed to have it's roots in the German "ficken" which means to strike or penetrate. It didn't achieve it's vulgar status until around the 16th or 17th century. The actual entomological origins of the word are hazy at best (I'm sick of this hazy knowledge) but it did not appear in the Oxford English Dictionary in it's modern form until 1972.

Some interesting facts:
Before 1600, windfucker was an acceptable name for the bird now known as the kestrel.

In 1938 Eddy Duchin in the Louis Armstrong song "Ole' Man Mosse" used the word, sparking sales of 170,000 during the depression when sales of 20,000 were considered high.

Mailer's 1948 The Naked and the Dead "fuck" was substituted with "fug" which the proto-punk groups the Fugs named themselves in reference to.

The show that holds the record for the most numerous utterances of the word on television is the HBO series Deadwood. The constant use of the word soon inspired a web site dedicated to keeping track of the Deadwood Fuck Count, which has recorded about 1.54 fucks per minute.

So there you have it. It's just a word that can be used in just about any form in the English Language. It has history just like everything else. I will not resort to the lowest common denominator and close with "fuck". ...fuck.

read on young scholar:
Wikipedia Fuck
Urban Legends of Its Fucking Origin