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About this site
fuck.uk.com is a reference site about one word. It is not, and will never be, a pornography site, a shock site or a shop.
What makes it different
Most writing about this word either will not print it or will not take it seriously. This site does both. It prints the word in full, because that is the only honest way to study it. It treats it with the care a dictionary gives any other word, with dates, cognates, grammar and a source for every claim. And it goes one step further than a dictionary, with a verdict tool that turns the research and the law into a practical answer to the question people actually ask: can I say it here?
The design follows the subject. This is the most censored word in English, so the site looks like a censor's file: typed dockets, classification stamps, exhibits pinned to the page, and a Censor button at the top that blacks out the word for anyone reading over your shoulder.
Why it exists
Type the word into a search engine and the results have for years been dominated by adult sites and domain speculators, with the actual history of the word buried under them. That seemed wrong for a word this old, this common and this interesting. The aim here is simple: to be the page a curious person finds first, and to answer every reasonable question they might have, with sources.
What it covers
Etymology and history; grammar and usage; the word's compounds and its equivalents in other languages; its place in film, music, books, comedy, politics, the press and online; the science of why people swear; the law in Britain and elsewhere; and an honest argument for using the word less. The full index lists everything.
Standards
Claims are sourced on the Sources page. Where the evidence is disputed the text says so. Where a popular story is false (the acronym, the Agincourt archers, the Anglo-Saxon origin) the text says that too. The site avoids slurs and lists none, even where they are formed on the word. Corrections are welcome through the corrections form and are acted on.
Who it is for
Adults, older teenagers, students of English, teachers who have been asked the question in class, journalists, lawyers, comedians, and anyone who has ever wondered why the word feels the way it does. It is not written for children, though there is nothing on it a child would be harmed by except the vocabulary, which they already know.
Technical
The site is plain PHP with no database and no tracking. The only cookie is a session on the corrections form, and the only thing stored in your browser is your Censor setting. Photographs are public domain or openly licensed, credited on every image and listed on the Sources page. Pages are marked up with schema.org structured data so that search engines can see it is a reference work. Text may be quoted with a link.