"fuck" in Wash Post

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 10:54:42AM -0400, Beverly Flanigan wrote:
> P.S.  When I first sent this message, I got a line saying the "word" might
> "get my keyboard washed out with soap."  Where does this come from?!?

Presumably Redmond, Washington, where they think they know what's
best for you.

> FWIW, _The Nation_ has been printing "fuck" in full for some time
> now.  Know of any others?

Almost everyone except for newspapers. Harper's and The Atlantic
have been printing it since the '60s, The New Yorker since the
mid-1980s. The N.Y. Times has only printed it once, in 1998
(Starr Report), but it has appeared in Time and Newsweek.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED