HISTORIANS FIND EARLIEST USE OF THE F-WORD

An English historian has come across what is believed to be the earliest recorded use of the “f-word”, meaning what it means today. It was in a court case dating to the year 1310. Dr. Paul Booth of Keele University spotted the word in a man’s name ‘Roger F—bythenavele’ in a court record on December 8, 1310. The name reappeared three times. Dr. Booth believes that the surname was a nickname, thinking it could either mean “an attempt at copulation by an inexperienced youth,” or possibly used as an equivalent of the word ‘dimwit’. Prior to Dr. Booth’s discovery, the previous earliest use of the word was 150 years later, in a poem written around 1475.
* Imagine going to court and they officially record your name for posterity as the equivalent of “dimwit.”
* I guess you are a dimwit if all you can manage is an attempt at copulation.
* Thanks, Dr. Paul Booth of Keele University. Now stop screwing around and get back to work.
* It’s not written down in the ship’s log, but I’d bet Columbus used it a few times when he was lost in the middle of the ocean looking for America.
* That’s great. Now do “assbadger.”