A 19th Century F-Word Use

[Mullins, Bill]

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> Now if they'd found it used as an "adjective of extreme
> contumely" in 1850 - THAT would've been something!
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> JL
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> "Baker, John" <JMB at STRADLEY.COM> wrote:
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> Gene Weingarten's column, in the Washington Post for 2/6/2005
> and syndicated in other newspapers,
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55085-2005Feb1.
> html, reproduces an interesting use of "fucking" from the
> National Archives:
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> Weingarten indicated in an online chat today that the
> archivists were astonished to find the term. Presumably they
> brought it to his attention for use in his humor column.
>
> John Baker
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