As I write this, blasting out the new Metallica song “Broken, Beat, & Scarred” at obscene levels, my mind wanders to a thought I had earlier today about my favorite word ever…fuck.
Those of you who’re lucky, or unlucky…whichever, enough to know me well will find it no surprise that my single favorite word is “fuck”. I mean I fucking love that word.
Well, while most of you are probably very familiar with the word itself and it’s current meaning, I’m willing to bet that most of you are unaware of one of the original meanings of what’s now considered the dirtiest word in the entire English language.
Fuck: [Origin: akin to MD fokken to thrust, copulate with, Sw dial. focka to copulate with, strike, push, fock penisNow here’s where the aforementioned “little observation” comes in.
Way back in the mists of time, when mighty “fuck” was simple, harmless little “focka”, it was sometimes associated as a more colorful way of saying “hit”.
Fast forward over 500 years. Now, we in modern society are using the word “hit” to intone the word “fuck”. As in “I’d totally hit that”.
It makes me wonder if the word “hit” will be absolutely filthy in 750 years and “fuck” will be completely clean and accepted. Will “fuck” one day go mainstream like Elvis Presley…or Metallica even. Hmmmm.
Because if it does ever happen then I think that’d be pretty fucking ironic.
