[horatio]

Actually, the word is much older than that. Shakespeare made puns on both the "F word" and the "C word."

Deadwood is built around a "realistic" impression of Western dialogue. The notion being that the kind of people who pioneered the West were not the sort of people to watch their mouths. Makes sense to me, though I haven't actually watched any of it.

[bannie]

I knew Shakespeare punned the "c word," but I had no idea he used the "f word."

I'm here to learn.

:)

[bannie]

http://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/fuck.htm

I hope this doesn't offend...it's the etymology of the "f word."

If the address above doesn't show up, it's because the "f word" is the four letters before the ".htm" at the end of the address.

I'm LEARNING IN FREEREPUBLIC!!!!!