reconditarmonia:shredsandpatches:take-me-to-your-lieder:akycha:theparisreview:Behold: the first writ
reconditarmonia:shredsandpatches:take-me-to-your-lieder:akycha:theparisreview:Behold: the first written use of fuck, from 1528, inscribed by a monk who seems to have been pretty pissed off with an abbot.CANNOT STOP LAUGHINGI really hope that’s an actual ‘f’ and not just a long ’s’ like how they used to be written.Definitely an f – while the long s is hard to distinguish from an f in print, they’re pretty distinct in script (handwritten long s’s tend to have a loop at the bottom).Yup, this is real -- source link