I think you have to be careful with that f word - it has a different meaning in the former colonies. Has there been a thread on how the early Americans censored the English language? Examples include roach for cockroach, chickadee for tit(mouse, the bird), rooster for male chicken. Understandable for Puritans, and it extended to songs, where we sometimes have an 'unarmed' man instead of a 'naked' man in Matty Groves/Musgrave, and The streets of Laredo where the victim is shot, instead of the Royal Albion where he is dying of pox (or similar) .