Members of the Word Reference forum contemplate the etymology and meaning of the “A” in the expression, “Fuckin’ A.” Elsewhere Geoffrey Nunberg, linguist and author of Assholism: The First Sixty Years, shares his take on the ubiquitous “a-word,” which he believes originated during World War II.
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On That F*ckin’ “A”
By Nick Moran posted at 2:00 pm on September 1, 2012 1
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at 9:00 pm on September 4, 2012
[...] for a show. We watched one man’s 12.5 years of self-portraits in under eight minutes. We contemplated the etymology and meaning of the “A” in the expression, “F*ckin’ A.” And finally, we [...]