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A brief history of the word "fuck"
In all of English there are few words rich enough in their history and variety of use to warrant a dedicated dictionary that runs to hundreds of pages and multiple editions. That fuck is at the sam…
A convenient sound change and a respelling brings us to the familiar phrase “fuck you.” This story, totally ludicrous in any version, was popularized on the NPR show Car Talk, where it was meant as a joke; it spread on the Internet in the 1990s as a serious explanation. This graphically illustrated book—surviving in only a single copy, in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich—is presented in the style of a dialogue between a sexually experienced older woman and her young niece, this format (common especially in the eighteenth century) allowing highly explicit discussions to appear in the guise of instruction. The author appears to have been unusually interested in language: at one point the characters discuss the precise differences in meaning among occupy, fuck, swive, incunt, and other verbs, and elsewhere the older woman explains why men use offensive words like cunt during intercourse.
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