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

Enlarge / “Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!” Monty Python’ and the Holy Grail’s family-friendly approach to swearing handily avoids the F-word. (credit: YouTube/Funny or Die/Monty Python) Scotland has much to recommend it: impressive architecture, gorgeous Highlands, and a long, distinguished intellectual tradition that has spawned some of the Western world’s greatest thinkers over several centuries. It’s also, apparently, home to a medieval manuscript that contains the earliest known usage…

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