I hadn't realised we actually had an article on it, but would have got round
to it sooner or later: The f word has a fascinating history. The article
still needs more work though. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. There
are a number of other swear words which will probably need a similar
treatment.
rgds
Steve Callaway
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|I know I'll get in trouble for this, but in the spirit of "be bold" I
|deleted the [[Fuck]] article. It just seemed pointless to have an
|article called f***.
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|If someone wants to write an article on obscenity or censorship, and
|treat the problems the term f*** has had, fine. But I don't want to see
|every dirty word (or word that's gotten the dirty end of the stick) have
|its own article.
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It's not every dirty word, Ed, it's one important word, so important
that one of the most distinguished American lexicographers wrote a
whole book about it.
It's back now, and is being edited.
Tom Parmenter
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