[Wikipedia-l] RE: F***

[Steve Callaway]

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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> |Ed Poor
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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.
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> It's back now, and is being edited.
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> Tom Parmenter
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