its-just-cat:

mishasminions:

I REALLY LIKE THIS URBAN LEGEND BEHIND THE WORD, “FUCK”

THAT SAID THAT IN THE MIDDLE AGES, DURING THE BLACK DEATH, RESOURCES WERE SCARCE SO COUPLES HAD TO OBTAIN ROYAL PERMISSION TO HAVE CHILDREN

SO THEY HAD TO PUT UP A SIGN ON THEIR HOUSE (VISIBLE ON THE ROAD) THAT SAID,

“FORNICATION UNDER CONSENT of KING”

AND THEIR ENTIRE STREET WOULD KNOW THEY’RE FUCKING

This is one of the few things of note my father taught me.

The word “fuck” did not originate in Christianized Anglo-Saxon England as an acronym of “Fornication Under Consent of King” - It is of Proto-Germanic origin, and is related to Dutch fokken and Norwegian fukka.

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