use on occasion are not in fact Anglo Saxon as we were always taught But are Dutch in origin and were brought to the beloved nation by English sailors. You can't trust these historians to get any thing right can you?
The Adventure of English by Melvyn Bragg.
2007-09-06 21:56:10 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
Bloody hell. what a damn cheek. The buggers get away with anything. Blasted people. And that is only the mild ones.
2007-09-06 22:04:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't like swearing, but I didn't know that.
I did hear years ago that the ' f ' word, (which I hate), came from, I think in the 1800's in England, when brothels were prohibited, and you had to get the Kings permission to open one up.
You also had to hang a sign out front that said: ' Fornication Under The Consent of the King '.
But guys from the UK would be able to tell you the exact century and which king.
Sorry "Slk29406", you are wrong about that. That must have been made up by Americans. Ask the guys in the UK, their country is older than America.
2007-09-06 23:09:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Is not the Dutch language a Germanic one? I think like most people if I'm going to swear I'm not terribly bothered where the swear word comes from. I'm told that some of the best ones are Arabic
2007-09-07 08:48:26 · answer #3 · answered by Scouse 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh I say, surely that doesn't include the occasional very mild expletives I utter! All this time I thought they were Anglo Saxon agricultural terms, for a sweetener, something to hold water back and a clump of soil. I wonder what they really mean.
2007-09-07 00:26:42 · answer #4 · answered by Florence-Anna 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
had this problem many times,historians do some rather dummy things to make people fall the way they want it to..most of writen history is a lie, but start digging and cross matching,they don't match up w/the other<>IS<>
2007-09-07 01:46:45 · answer #5 · answered by THE"IS" 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have known for years that the swearword "bugger" was not from the same root as buggery, meaning anal sex, but from the germanic word bucca, meaning imp or small demon, so calling someone a bugger is basically the same as calling them a little devil.
2007-09-07 08:10:45 · answer #6 · answered by boojumuk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well my son in law is dutch and I thought he never swore but maybe he does in dutch
2007-09-06 23:12:45 · answer #7 · answered by Maid Angela 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Aww, man, what a bummer! Thought we'd cornered the market!
2007-09-08 07:18:22 · answer #8 · answered by felines 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting.....I save swearing for special occasions...then it works !! Well if it doesn't just have to say it again and again until it does.
2007-09-08 09:26:32 · answer #9 · answered by eagledreams 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Godverdomme! (that's dutch)
2007-09-06 22:07:26 · answer #10 · answered by Steven Z 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋