For whatever reason many people try to say that the word 'Fuck' derives from an acronymic phrase, either 'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' or 'Fornication Under Consent of the King.' But it does not. The acronymic explanation of the origin of 'Fuck takes one of two alleged phrases; Fornication Under Consent of the King or For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. It's thought that the king was responsible for handing out permissions of marriage or sexual engagement, as it's not like he wouldn't have time to do anything else.
Though there have been times when conquering forces have engaged in rape, it wasn't by royal fiat at the behest of a king looking to further dispirit the conquered. One last nail in the coffin of the 'fornication under consent of the king' origin comes from the word 'fornication' itself. Though many reasonably assume fornication is an old-time word for having sex, the term specifically means the physical union of man and wife. One can fornicate premaritally or extramaritally, but not intramaritally. This all meaning, if a king were to have sex with the newly made wife, it would not be counted as fornication.
The second claim of the word; 'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge.' Adulterers, rapists, child molesters, and those who were engaged in premarital sex were punished with a sentenced to wear a placard announcing their wrongdoing. According to this origin, adulterers locked the stocks in village squares sported 'Fuck' around their necks as did rapists walking around in prison yards. Though displaying public shaming were popular punishments in 18th and 19th century USA, any placards left either on the prisoner or on top of the stock would list the crime succinctly. Thus, someone who'd be who'd been caught stealing would have a placard that said 'Thief' or 'Stealing,' maybe even 'Stealing A Book,' but never one that read 'For Stealing A Book.'
The word Fuck is a very old word, and even recorded in English since the 15th century with relation of other Germanic languages. Most likely the word comes from a mixture of old words like Middle Dutch fokken = "to thrust, copulate with"; Norwegian dialect fukka = "to copulate"; and Swedish dialect focka = "to strike, push, copulate" and fock = "penis", but not an anagram.
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