If you are Canadian, and of a certain vintage, you know what that refers to: the F-word. F–k.

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It’s been around for a while, that word. The first recorded use of f–k came in 1528 when some anonymous monk wrote on the margins of a manuscript about (ironically) morality: “O D f–king Abbot.”

Was the Abbot the unhappy monk’s boss? Was the Abbot less-than-chaste? The answers to these and other critical questions have been lost to the mists of time. (The funny part? The “D’ refers to “damned,” which I can write in a family-friendly newspaper. The F-bomb? Can’t.)

I’m not going to get into what the word actually means, because it means what it has always meant, more or less. That is, what the Fourth Earl of Chesterfield described hereto: “The position is ridiculous, and the pleasure is momentary.”

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