Perfectly Obscene Word
Dropping the F-Bomb
By Joel Achenbach
The Washington Post
Sunday, June 25, 2006
The most versatile word in our language can do almost anything, other than be printed in a family newspaper. It can be a noun, a verb, a gerund, an adjective or just an expletive. It can be literal or figurative. Although it has an explicit sexual meaning, it's usually used figuratively these days, as an all-purpose intensifier.
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By Charles Krauthammer
Washington Post
Friday, July 2, 2004
I am sure there is a special place in heaven reserved for those who have never used the F-word. I will never get near that place. Nor, apparently, will Dick Cheney.
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Jesse Sheidlower is the principal North American Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and was featured in the 2002 IBM ThinkPad campaign "Interesting People With Interesting Jobs." He is the author of the controversial, best-selling book The F Word.
When Do Papers Print the F-Word? - How do newspaper editors decide?
By Dan Kois
Slate