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Fornication under consent of the king traduccion
what is the acronym for the f-word
However, the word is written in code, substituting some letters for others to make it difficult to read. In the image below, the first sentence is in Latin and the second (with the word “fuck” in bold) is in code.
The fact that half of the text is in code “perhaps implies that it had a subversive intent,” analyzes medievalist Kate Wiles. Other sex words were also encoded in the text, adds Jesse Sheidlower.
The explanation of the origin of “fuck” as an acronym is not only false, but also anachronistic. “Acronyms in English are exceptionally rare before the 1940s,” Sheidlower points out. Generally, the origin of English words that come from acronyms (such as “scuba” or “radar”) is established as soon as they appear “and the acronym is not used decades or centuries later as an after-the-fact explanation,” adds the lexicographer.
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The origin of words is usually something quite studied, although for some of them their origins are lost in mists that help urban legends to arise about their roots. This happens in any language, but here we will deal with two quite certain origins and two others that have had a popular diffusion that does not correspond to reality.
A very recurrent expression, both as an exclamation and as a verb referring to the act of copulating (said in a non-rude way). The origins of this word, to which even academic research and monographic books have been devoted, seem to be in an import of the homonymous Germanic word, which would come to mean something like penetrate. But urban legend attributes its origin to two possible causes:
– The first would be the acronym for Fornication Under Consent of the King, that is, fornicating under the King’s permission. It would be a sign hung on the door by couples who were authorized by the monarch to have intercourse for reproductive purposes. Evidently, this urban legend is false, since the poor chancellery of the King would not be able to cope with signing authorizations, leaving the population the alternative of breaking the laws prohibiting carnal copulation or not copulating with the consequent risk of reaching the extinction of the population due to lack of offspring.
consent king meaning
Sex was not allowed for enjoyment, but only to conceive. When a married couple wished to conceive a child, they had to request permission from the authorities. If this permission was granted, they were given a plaque that read “Fornication Under Consent of the King”, hence FUCK.
Another version states that FUCK comes from “Forced Unnatural Carnal Knowledge”, words that inhabited a sign that had to be worn by those convicted of rape.
Fornication under consent of the king traduccion 2021
Actually, the word comes from Germanic languages. “There are many theories about its origin (French, Latin, Old Norse or even Egyptian, which is the least likely). The most likely is that ‘fuck’ comes from ‘fokken’ a Low German word meaning ‘to strike,'” explained Kate Wiles, medievalist and editor-in-chief of History Today magazine, in a July 10 interview with AFP.
However, the word is written in code, substituting some letters for others to make it difficult to read. In the image below, the first sentence is in Latin and the second (with the word “fuck” in bold) is in code.
The fact that half of the text is in code “perhaps implies that it had a subversive intent,” analyzes medievalist Kate Wiles. Other sex words were also encoded in the text, adds Jesse Sheidlower.
The explanation of the origin of “fuck” as an acronym is not only false, but also anachronistic. “Acronyms in English are exceptionally rare before the 1940s,” Sheidlower points out. Generally, the origin of English words that come from acronyms (such as “scuba” or “radar”) is established as soon as they appear “and the acronym is not used decades or centuries later as an after-the-fact explanation,” adds the lexicographer.
