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Thread #75378   Message #1323843
Posted By: GUEST,AKgrown
11-Nov-04 - 05:33 PM
Thread Name: BS: Cursing
Subject: RE: BS: Cursing
I've checked this one out before...

'Fuck' is definitely not an acronym, it comes from Middle English- fuccant-which means "they fuck". It was first written in a poem in a mixture of Latin and English sometime before 1500.

Well, I know the finger went back to ancient Greece and Rome. One of the perverted emperors (either Nero or Caligula, I can't remember) had his subjects kiss his middle finger, as a double-entendre for you-know-what.

Hope this clears it up!

AKgrown