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The word f*ck is NOT an acronym. Its first attestation in written English was in the early 16th century when it was spelled ****. That spelling automatically kills the acronym myth. It is derived ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fukan which meant "to have intercourse" and before that from Proto-Indo-European *pug- which meant "to strike". The word has a very long history as part of English and its ancestors.

2006-07-24 04:30:26 · answer #1 · answered by Taivo 7 · 0 0

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"'Getting Better' proved an interesting example of how they curbed each other's excesses when they worked together. The optimism of Paul's chorus, where everything is improving because love, is counterbalanced by John's confession that he was once a schoolboy rebel, an angry young man and a wife beater. When Paul sings that things are getting better all the time, John chimes in with 'it couldn't get more worse'. Asked about the song years later, John admitted it referred to his aggressive tendencies, "I sincerely believe in love and peace. I am a violent man who has learner not to be violent and regret his violence." * I took this from a book I own: A Hard Day's Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Song by Steve Turner * I'm not really disturbed by that line, I've always loved the lines that follow: "man, I was mean but I'm changing my scene, and I'm doing the best that I can." I think that the whole part about the wife beating is an essential bit about how much things are truly getting better.

2016-04-08 06:28:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I'm not a Beatles fan, and I don't find nothing offensive about that song or them lines at all. He was only making a statement about himself, or maybe even someone else, that hit their woman be it a girlfriend or wife, which sorry to say did happen more often back then than it does to day, I should say it happened back then as much as it does to day, but was excepted as in, people did not talk about it that much. And all Lennon did was bring it to the forefront, to let people know what is going on in the world, and no one is doing anything about it. But he or the person in their song is doing something about it, as he's stopped beating the woman and things are getting better. I don't see nothing wrong with that at all. I think maybe you are going overboard a bit with the song. So I guess you don't like Hendrix shooting his old lady and running off to Mexico. I bet she was beaten many times, before she was shot. Or the Rolling Stones, singing about how Stupid Girl, a put down on all women, and that they were useless. But that is not the case. One always has to remember in the 50s it was very well known that men beat their woman, girlfriend/wife, and it also was true into the 60s, when people like The Beatles brought it to the forefront. So as a song goes, it's a great song, for it's open to what was going on at the time, and that it's also time to change things and make it better. If I was bothered by that song for that verse alone, then I would be bothered by over have the songs in my collection. I'm okay with that. Cause all it is doing is telling me things like that got to stop, and we have to start to make things better. In which case he is doing. take care dave

2016-03-16 22:45:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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2016-06-02 04:25:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

the earliest occurence of this word is sometime before 1500 in the poem 'flen flyyis' - a satire on the monks of ely (near cambridge in england).

the term shows up in dunbar a little later - but since dunbar wrote in scots one can have an interesting trivial-pursuit type discussion of when the word first occurs in english.

the word has a distinct and clear sense from its first appearance and it was never an acronym (acronyms weren't regularly used as words until many hundreds of years later).

2006-07-24 04:42:40 · answer #5 · answered by synopsis 7 · 0 0

It was an old Germanic word ... NOT either of the acronyms you mentioned!!

Those acronyms were started as JOKES!! You know, like when G.W.Bush first ran for president - a JOKE!! Unfortunately, both jokes lost their savour because SOME people took them too seriously...!
; )

2006-07-24 12:51:54 · answer #6 · answered by _ 6 · 0 0

It is an old Anglo-Saxon word. And that meanst that it has northern Germany origins.

2006-07-24 04:12:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

There is also evidence that it is a German word (fokken or along those lines) which means 'to strike'.

2006-07-24 04:10:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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