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No malice.This topic is for the sake of academic discussion.

I just read an e-mail posted by joe mac <denny5316@yahoo.com> who had shared some interesting trivia. Among the finer points featured are the following:

The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David, Hearts - Charlemagne, Clubs -Alexander, the Great Diamonds - Julius Caesar

Math.. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987, 654,321

I knew this fact on one of the discussion in our history class way back in college:

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

“I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

What catched my attention is what this e-mail claims about the F-U-C-K word :

In ancient England a person could not have sex unless you had consent of the King (unless you were in the Royal Family).When anyone wanted to have a baby, they got consent of the King, the King gave them a placard that they hung on their door while they were having sex. The placard had F.*.* K (Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it. Now you know where that word came from.

This is what Wikipedia has to say about this F-word:

One reason that the word fuck is so hard to trace etymologically is that it was used far more extensively in common speech than in easily traceable written forms.

There are several urban-legend false etymologies postulating an acronymic origin for the word. None of these acronyms was ever heard before the 1960s, according to the authoritative lexicographical work, The F-Word, and thus are backronyms. In any event, the word fuck has been in use far too long for some of these supposed origins to be possible. Some of these urban legends are:

• That the word fuck came from Irish law. If a couple were caught committing adultery, they would be punished “For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge In the Nude”, with “FUCKIN” written on the stocks above them to denote the crime.

There are stories behind every word we say. The lack of proof makes this claim one of the urban-legend false etymologies of our times.