swear words.?

Question

Where do they actually come from eg F**k? i've got no ideas. its not like its the shortened version of another word or anythng

Answer 1

There is a doucmentry on the F word that shold be out soon. Looks good.

Answer 2

I head that in the 1700's some forms of punishment required a person to be in a stockade for several days or more in the public square. A sign would be placed in front of the prisoner so the public would know what his offense was. Thief, etc. This could apply to adultery and other forms of inappropriate behavior. Premarital sex was not appropriate behavior. If someone was caught in the act prior to marriage, and the woman's family demanded that some penance for the male take place for soiling the daughter's reputation, they would have to do time. What was placed on public notice was, "Found Unlawful Carnal Knowledge". It was later shorted by using the acronym of the first letters.

Bat guano, (bat fecies) is a very good fertalizer. There was a market for it. It would be collected, packaged, and shipped to various locations. There were land routes and ship routes for transport. When the boxes were aboard ship, they were placed below deck for storage. Each shift would have to go down below and check the hull for leaks. Since it was an inclosed area, they had to use an oil lamp for illumination. If the bat guano got wet, the bacteria would act upon it forming methane gas. The gas would collect in the hull of the ship. When the person went into the hull with a lamp, the methane gas would ignite and the ship would be blown up. Once the source of the problem was identified, the boxes containing the natural fertilizer was marked, "Ship High In Transit", which was a recomendation that it be stacked very high above the water level so that it could not get wet and form methan gas. The Boxes were eventually marked with the acronymn forming the fist letters... S.H. I.T

Answer 3

swear words change with the times. like today b*tch is considered bad but just back prior to the 1950's it was a common every day word to talk about a female dog.

crap came from WWI from when our troops were over in England and saw a tank on the wall above a toilet....said CRAPPER. was the makers name. our boys brought the name home and now today its deemed a bad word.

normally society sets what is a swear word and what isn't. and they change with generations.

the bible does not speak of such words but says to not use the Lords name in vain, not to swear and not to tell course jokes.

Answer 4

Some say it comes for an old English Law Term: For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. Some say it's an old Anglo-Saxon word, "fekken", which means "to strike"

Answer 5

The word ****, i think comes from America, of all places. I believe it stood for For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, and was used as a brief way of saying why a prostitute had been arrested

Answer 6

way back when f**k wasn't a bad word. The english used it. Then the french came along and thought that the english were pigs, filthy, nasty, low-lifes, and made f**k a bad word. if you said it you were like the english. My english teacher told me this. it pretty much means what it is used as (sexually or otherwise) that is how the english used it.

Answer 7

It comes from the the French word fuch, which means to care for a loved one in the best way possible and then they back stab you.

Answer 8

It was a term derived during the midevil times in England. It meant Fornication Under Consent of the King. I believe that during that time, in order to have any type of intimate relations it had to be approved by his majesty.

Answer 9

Thats an intresting question. I think these words have been used at the beginning of time.

Answer 10

I think its just a gradual evolution of words, most swear words I reckon were religious and blasphemous so were shunned