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    Most unexpected appearance of "fuck" in print

    In some circumstances the word fuck is used where we more or less expect it - in pornography, modern novels, and "progressive" talk. Historically it has sometimes appeared when least expected: for instance the dread word slipped into the columns of "The Times" (London) on 13 January 1882. The report of a speech delivered by the Attorney General, Sir William Harcourt, included one man's sentiment that "he felt like a bit of fucking." The shock at this in Printing House Square was so great that a full four days elapsed before "the management of this journal" could steel itself to issue an apology - it spoke of "gross outrage," of a "malicious fabrication" that was "surreptitiously introduced" and noted that the matter was under legal investigation - "it is to be hoped that the perpetrator of the outrage will be brought to punishment." "The Times" suffered another terrible blow when an advertisement for a book about the public schools was discovered, after the paper had been printed, to include the line - "With a Glossary of Some Words used by Henry Irving in his disquisitions upon fucking, which is in common use in these schools." And this only a few months after the first incident! Not a good year for "The Times". It is also noted that in a daily paper reporting the birth of a royal child - "the substitution of an F for a B in the name of the palace where the queen was confined gave the heading of the notice a suspiciously suggestive appearance." All in all, Kenneth Tynan's delivery of the word fuck on BBC television had one or two "establishment" precedents.


    From The Illustrated Book of Sexual Records.
    © 1974, 1982, 1997-2001 G.L. Simons

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