2020年2月23日 · There is only one known pre-twentieth-century [English] word with an acronymic origin and it was in vogue for only a short time in 1886. The word is “colinderies” or “colinda”, an acronym for the Colonial and Indian Exposition held in London in that year.

f, letter that corresponds to the sixth letter of the Greek, Etruscan, and Latin alphabets, known to the Greeks as digamma. The sound represented by the letter in Greek was a labial semivowel similar to the English w.

2018年9月26日 · The F-word was recorded in a dictionary in 1598 (John Florio’s A Worlde of Wordes, London: Arnold Hatfield for Edw. Blount). It is remotely derived from the Latin futuere and Old German ficken/fucken meaning ‘to strike or penetrate’, which had the slang meaning to …

The origin of F is the Semitic letter waw, which represented a sound like /v/ or /w/. It probably originally depicted either a hook or a club. It may have been based on a comparable Egyptian hieroglyph such as that which represented the word mace (transliterated as ḥ (dj)):

2014年2月11日 · English speakers enjoy what seems like an unmatched curiosity about the origins and historical usages of their language's curses. The exceedingly popular 'F word' has accreted an especially wide body of textual investigation, wide-eyed speculation, and implausible folk etymology. Open Culture, openculture.com

2023年11月1日 · In this post, I’ll dive into the surprisingly complex etymology and changing meaning of what has to be one of English’s most infamous swear words — “fuck.” Buckle up, it’s gonna be a wild ride....

2016年11月20日 · That early spelling of the F word looks distinctly Scandinavian, which lead some experts to believe that the word first originated in Northern Europe. Others posit that it's derived from the...

2018年5月17日 · F, f [Called ‘eff’]. The 6th LETTER of the Roman ALPHABET as used for English. It originated in the Phoenician symbol waw, a vertical line forking at the top like Y, which was adapted by the Greeks into two letters: ϝ (digamma: ‘double gamma’), which represented the sound /w/, and Υ (upsilon), which represented /u/.

2022年11月22日 · The letter F in different languages has evolved over time, with its origins tracing back to the Egyptian hieroglyph that resembled a snake around 3,000 B.C. Over the years, the letter F gradually lost its snakelike characteristics and became a …