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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 12:53 PM
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WTF does what the f**k mean?
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Nicholas D Wolfwood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 12:55 PM
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1. IDK what "I don't know" means
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 12:58 PM
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2. For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
Old British legal term. A good thing to keep in mind. When you tell someone to go fuck themselves, you're telling them to go rape themselves.
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yvr girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 01:33 PM
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3. What was the term for 'lawful carnal knowledge'
according to old British legal types? I didn't know there was a distinction?
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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-10-05 01:36 PM
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4. Bzzzt. wrong
http://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/fuck.htm

Variations:


The 'acronym' is variously rendered as:
Fornication Under Consent of the King
Fornication Under Charles the King
Fornication Under Crown of the King
Fornication under Christ, King
Forbidden Under Charter of the King (a sign posted on brothels closed by the Crown)
For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
Forced Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
File Under Carnal Knowledge (how Scotland Yard marked rape files).
Origins: Though
a few common English words have grown out of acronyms (words created by taking the first letter(s) of major words in a phrase), 'fuck' isn't one of them. With precious few exceptions, words of acronymic origin date from the 20th century and no earlier. It's almost guaranteed, therefore, any word from before the time of automobiles did not spring to life from a series of initials becoming so common folks began pronouncing it as its own word.

See link for full explanation.
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