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 :-)

[pastafreak]

I seem to remember reading-somewhere-that its original meaning had something to do with agriculture

[jno]

Partridge (author of a book on slang) thought it might come from pugnare, Latin for fight. It's possible; there seems to be an element of aggression in many of the ways it's used.

[sunny-dave]

The sainted Susie Dent explains it all from an academic perspective ...

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[Patsy33]

Ooh, I don't think I've got room for anymore....

[Patsy33]

LOL! Wrong thread!!...

[gness]

Well that's confused us, Patsy......... :-)

[gness]

Oh yes!...But we know where you were going!... :-)

[Patsy33]

I'm good at confusing people gness. I'm like my mother
I remember she went to complain in her local electric board shop that the flat she had just moved into still had no supply of gas!