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Re: USAGE: Dutch v or f (was: Grimm's Law)

From:Levi Tooker <nerd525@...>
Date:Thursday, April 18, 2002, 23:27
> I have heard theories that the English word was > indeed > a loan from German "ficken" and/or French "foutre", > both of which have similar meanings to "fuck" and > bear > some orthographic representation.
Perhaps if I had been able to get more sleep, I would have written that correctly. :) The word "representation" should be "similarity". __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/