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To: ProphetAble who wrote (6841)	9/14/1998 1:47:00 PM
From: Shawn M. Downey	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 62548

By the way the F word is actually an acronym developed long after the above mentioned story. It's breakdown is: For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge I don't think you are correct on this one. Any dictionary will tell you f**k is taken from Middle English fucken (a Germanic verb meaning to "to strike, move quickly, to penetrate"). There is also some references to the Middle Dutch work fokken. (I personally think it had to be from the Dutch <g>). The "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" was the name of some heavy metal band's album from the 80's. It sounds quite juvenile to me and I doubt it goes back much further than that.