I love hanging out at places like world wide words, and getting it to retrieve a random word. It's fun reading about their etymology. But then I've always been a bit like that. Here's one, the tabloid - you thought it meant something like a smallish newspaper format. But in fact the word was registered by Wellcome - a drug company, no less, to mean a smallish tablet. Now tell me that you knew that already!!
Anyway it came up at work the other day that nobody knew why f*** is such a rude word. Where did it come from? Is it Olde-English, Middle-English, or some other animal? So some judicious searching of tha Intarweb yielded this gem of a h2g2 entry ... informing us just *where* all those swear words come from.
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