[bksvol-discuss] Re: e: Re: use of the f word in ancient times sorry I have to use a variation heer
- From: "Amy Goldring Tajalli" <agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:56:44 -0400
I would not call the 16th C. ancient times but Hugh Rawson's Wicked Words
cites the use of fukkit as defined by the OED in the 1972 supplement [not in
the main vol. F] by William Dunbar in his poem "Ane Brash of Wowing" written
sometime prior to 1503. The OED of '72 defines the term fuk and variations -
including the more modern spelling - as a naval term not referring to coition
in any sense. Later in the 16th century various forms of the f word do appear
in its modern usage.
I cannot get to it for a few weeks, probably, but I will be scanning the Rawson
book as soon as I can get to it, after a few volumes of Bester and the last
Snopes. Sorry , that is as fast as I can go.
Amy
omsm
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From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: e: Re: novels about the ancient world
> Who knows? Bertrice Small has some of her 16th-century
> and slightly earlier use the "f" word not as a swear
> word but as an action verb. I thought maybe that word
> was used in that way in those times, but someone told
> me no. Since I wasn't there...but it is plausible.
>
> Cindy
>
> --- kelby carlson <kelbycarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> One book I just found looks very good:
>>
>> Stonehenge, 2,000 B.C. by Bernard Cornwell
>>
>> A couple of others that are on NLS is called the
>> Grail Quest
>> series, by the same author. Although, I do have to
>> wonder if
>> 12th century Britons used words like "shit". They
>> just don't
>> seem to talk like normal Englishman of that period
>> would. No old
>> English to speak of.
>>
>> Kelby
>>
>> Doomed Dragon
>>
>> "It is not what we see that determines who we are.
>> It is how we
>> choose to see it."
>>
>>
>>
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> >From: "Cheryl Fogle" <cfogle@xxxxxxx
>> >To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >Date sent: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:46:08 -0500 (CDT)
>> >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: novels about the
>> ancient world
>>
>> >The McCullough series is excellent. I read a
>> couple of
>> >these years ago from NLS. I hope someone completes
>> the
>> >series for Bookshare. McCullough writes novels in
>> several
>> >time periods and several of her books are on
>> bookshare.
>>
>> >Cheryl
>>
>>
>>
>> >.. On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:41:05 -0400
>> > "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> I, Claudius
>> >> by
>> >> Robert Graves
>>
>> >> Pompeii: A Novel
>> >> by
>> >> Robert Harris
>>
>> >> The Mistletow and the Sword
>>
>> >> The First Man in Rome
>> >> by
>> >> Colleen McCullough
>> >> Synopsis:
>> >> What life and intrigue was like at the close of
>> the
>> >>Roman Republic.
>> >> Copyright Date:
>> >> 1990
>> >> Available Formats:
>> >> BRF DAISY
>> >> Membership required for download (United States
>> License)
>> >> The Grass Crown
>> >> by
>> >> Colleen McCullough
>> >> Synopsis:
>> >> Historic novel of Ancient Rome.
>> >> Copyright Date:
>> >> 1991
>>
>> >>Fortune's Favorites
>> >> by
>> >> Colleen McCullough
>> >> Historic novel taking place in Ancient Rome.
>> >> Copyright Date:
>> >> 1993
>>
>> >> Caesar
>> >> by
>> >> Colleen McCullough
>>
>> >> Caesar's Women
>> >> by
>> >> Colleen McCullough
>>
>> >> The October Horse: A Novel about Caesar and
>> Cleopatra
>> >> by
>> >> Colleen McCullough
>>
>> >> The Memoirs of Cleopatra
>> >> by
>> >> Margaret George
>>
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