More on that word!

What fun! The very afternoon after I posted my morning rant about the f-word, an NPR item came over on my Face Book news feed. Of course, I got involved in the conversation! I posted a couple of comments, but when someone came up with the old acronym origin of the word, I decided to cut and paste the OED definition. Here's what I posted: "Brit. /f{revv}k/, U.S. /f{schwa}k/ Forms: {alpha}. 15 fucke, 15- fuck; also Sc. pre-17 fuk.{beta}. nonstandard 19- fook, 19- fug, 19- fuk, 19- fukk, 19- fuq, 19- fuqq. [Probably cognate with Dutch fokken to mock (15th cent.), to strike (1591), to fool, gull (1623), to beget children (1637), ... See Moreto have sexual intercourse with (1657), to grow, cultivate (1772), Norwegian regional fukka to copulate, Swedish regional fokka to copulate (compare Swedish regional fock penis), further etymology uncertain: perhaps < an Indo-European root meaning ‘to strike’ also shown by classical Latin pugnus fist (see PUGNACIOUS adj.). Perhaps compare Old Icelandic fjúka to be driven on, tossed by the wind, feykja to blow, drive away, Middle High German fochen to hiss, to blow. Perhaps compare also Middle High German ficken to rub, early modern German ficken to rub, itch, scratch, German ficken to have sexual intercourse with (1558), German regional ficken to rub, to make short fast movements, to hit with rods, although the exact nature of any relationship is unclear." Obviously, that clears everything up.