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500-year-old manuscript contains earliest known use of the “F-word”

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    asteroid
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    The Bannatyne Manuscript gets its name from a young 16th-century Edinburgh merchant named George Bannatyne, who compiled the roughly 400 poems while stuck at home in late 1568, as the plague ravaged his city.

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    1. nothis
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      It's like poetry, it rhymes!

      It's like poetry, it rhymes!

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  2. Whom
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    Note, if you read this earlier:

    Note, if you read this earlier:

    [UPDATE 4/7/2020: Kristin Uscinski, a medieval historian at the State University of New York, Purchase, wrote in to inform us of an even earlier appearance of the F-word in the English language, "Roger F$#%-by-the-Navel who appears in some court records from 1310-11. I always make sure my students are aware of good ole Roger."]

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