http://blog.oup.com/2009/10/f-is-for-f/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Tue, 21 May 2013 18:35:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.oup.com/2009/10/f-is-for-f/#comment-306890 OUPblog » Blog Archive » Monthly etymology gleanings for October, part 1 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:31:06 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=5833#comment-306890 [...] indeed of Germanic, even if not exactly of Anglo-Saxon, origin. (For instance, I am certain that fuck is a late borrowing from Low German.) Thus profanities, from the inoffensive piss to the grossest [...] [...] indeed of Germanic, even if not exactly of Anglo-Saxon, origin. (For instance, I am certain that fuck is a late borrowing from Low German.) Thus profanities, from the inoffensive piss to the grossest [...]

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2009/10/f-is-for-f/#comment-153825 Tweets that mention F is for F*%# : OUPblog -- Topsy.com Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:52:49 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=5833#comment-153825 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Lauren. Lauren said: It's "a fucking." Not "an fucking." You fucked up. RT @oupblog: An fucking video of Jesse Sheidlower: http://bit.ly/8AE4u [...] [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Lauren. Lauren said: It's "a fucking." Not "an fucking." You fucked up. RT @oupblog: An fucking video of Jesse Sheidlower: http://bit.ly/8AE4u [...]

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