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'''Roger Fuckebythenavele''' was a 14th-century Englishman who was cited in court records of 1310–11. His name has been proposed as incorporating the earliest recorded instance of the [[English language|English]] [[swear word]] ''[[fuck]]''. |
'''Roger Fuckebythenavele''' was a 14th-century Englishman who was cited in court records of 1310–11. His name has been proposed as incorporating the earliest recorded instance of the [[English language|English]] [[swear word]] ''[[fuck]]''. |
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Roger Fuckebythenavele, who is mentioned seven times (with minor variations in spelling) in the [[plea rolls]] of the [[Cheshire|Chester County]] Court for the years 1310–1311. The serjeants of the peace had been ordered to arrest Roger and produce him before the court, but they had failed to find him, in consequence of which he was [[outlaw]]ed.<ref name="booth 2015">{{cite journal |first=Paul |last=Booth |authorlink=Paul Booth (historian) |title=An early fourteenth-century use of the F-word in Cheshire, 1310–11 |journal=Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire |url=http://www.academia.edu/28222733/An_early_fourteenth-century_use_of_the_F-word_in_Cheshire_1310_11_published_article_ |volume=164 |year=2015 |pages=99–102 }}</ref> |
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In 2015, [[Paul Booth (historian)|Paul Booth]] drew attention to Fuckebythenavele's "opprobrious nickname". Booth argues that "there can be no doubt" that the element ''fuck'' in his name "has the sexual connotation". He suggests that either Roger was a man who had tried, through ignorance, to have sexual intercourse through his partner's [[navel]] (or believed that this was the correct way to copulate); or that he had engaged in [[Non-penetrative sex#Frottage|frottage]], rubbing his [[penis]] against his partner's navel, possibly in order to avoid conception. Booth contends that this is the earliest recorded instance of the word ''fuck'' in English.<ref name="booth 2015"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/11861720/Earliest-use-of-f-word-discovered-in-court-records-from-1310.html |title=Earliest use of f-word discovered in court records from 1310 |work=[[Daily Telegraph]] |first=Emily |last=Gosden |date=13 September 2015 |accessdate=30 July 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/historian-understood-to-have-found-first-use-of-word-f-in-1310-english-court-case-concerning-roger-10498958.html |title=Historian understood to have found first use of word f*** in 1310 English court case |newspaper=Independent |first=Loulla-Mae |last=Eleftheriou-Smith |date=14 September 2015 |accessdate=27 July 2016 }}</ref> |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
Revision as of 12:06, 3 September 2017
Roger Fuckebythenavele was a 14th-century Englishman who was cited in court records of 1310–11. His name has been proposed as incorporating the earliest recorded instance of the English swear word fuck.
Roger Fuckebythenavele, who is mentioned seven times (with minor variations in spelling) in the plea rolls of the Chester County Court for the years 1310–1311. The serjeants of the peace had been ordered to arrest Roger and produce him before the court, but they had failed to find him, in consequence of which he was outlawed.[1]
In 2015, Paul Booth drew attention to Fuckebythenavele's "opprobrious nickname". Booth argues that "there can be no doubt" that the element fuck in his name "has the sexual connotation". He suggests that either Roger was a man who had tried, through ignorance, to have sexual intercourse through his partner's navel (or believed that this was the correct way to copulate); or that he had engaged in frottage, rubbing his penis against his partner's navel, possibly in order to avoid conception. Booth contends that this is the earliest recorded instance of the word fuck in English.[1][2][3]
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References
- ^ a b Booth, Paul (2015). "An early fourteenth-century use of the F-word in Cheshire, 1310–11". Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. 164: 99–102.
- ^ Gosden, Emily (13 September 2015). "Earliest use of f-word discovered in court records from 1310". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
- ^ Eleftheriou-Smith, Loulla-Mae (14 September 2015). "Historian understood to have found first use of word f*** in 1310 English court case". Independent. Retrieved 27 July 2016.