Anglo Saxon Language

[albaqwerty]

as there may be younger viewers, is the Eff word actually anglo saxon?

Do hope it is, used it a couple of times today regarding numpties with their cars at bus stops :-)

[hc4361]

16th century Germanic

[Mamyalynne]

The Oxford English Dictionary states that the ultimate etymology is uncertain, but that the word is "probably cognate" with a number of native Germanic words.


I shan't do any links for the reasons you gave above.

Wiki has a dedicated page to the word.

[ducksie]

Are ya meaning like Fockers?
It came from the war, the makers of the German warplanes were Fockers, so when the allies seen them coming they said get the Fockers it evolved into the eff word I think you mean now, I learned that in History in school, it must be true

[albaqwerty]

aah, thanks HC

am happy to swear in a variety of languages :-)

but only when needs must.

[ducksie]

http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/ww2-german-military-aircraft.asp

[Mamyalynne]

Fokker was a Dutch aircraft manufacturer named after its founder, Anthony Fokker.

[jim360]

Like a bunch of words the actual origin isn't known. Usually it's held to be from, say, Germanic words meaning "strike", rather than a similar Latin word futuere (same meaning as the English).

[dannyk13]

The Fockers was a Stan Boardman joke.

[dannyk13]

[ducksie]

I was in the right direction though, I even had the wrong spelling

[albaqwerty]

thanks Mamya xx

Ducksie xx

Think I might just swear at them in Italian next time :-D

[ducksie]

that was very funny Danny, never seen that before

[dannyk13]

Alba , do you mean "va fanc----"

[albaqwerty]

Danny!! that's just wonderful!!
pass me a hankie someone, please!!

[jim360]

Entirely random and true fact: until very recently I had a very specific speech impediment where I genuinely couldn't say the eff word. Like, if I tried to, it would get stuck in my mouth. A "one-word stammer", if you will.

That's gone now, for some reason, and now I say it all the *** time.

[albaqwerty]

yep Danny, that's the way it starts, I can also remember the German one, but for life life of me cannot remember the French one
(Maybe the French one didn't work?! oooh controversial lol)

[albaqwerty]

Jim,. the younger alba had a speech impediment for a few years, I would never, ever mock or tease someone with any form of hindrance xx

[Jackdaw33]

French is either foutre or enculer. The latter is much more vulgar.

[jim360]

Neither would I. One utterly brilliant lecturer I've seen has a genuine stammer. Don't know how he does it but he's very good and you soon learn to listen to what he's saying rather than how he's saying it.

Mine was over just that one word, and as I say it's been cured now.

[albaqwerty]

Jim, I didn't think for one minute that you would x

Jack, thank you x

I'll go with the latter and rant at numpty car parkers with Germanic, Italian, German and French whilst waving my sticks about!!