Fuck (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Fuck" in English language version.

Last modified: 06:31:59, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

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ahdictionary.com (Global: 4,364^th place; English: 2,759^th place)

"fuck". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.). HarperCollins.

ala.org (Global: 2,068^th place; English: 1,039^th place)

"ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000". American Library Association. July 20, 2009. Archived from the original on September 28, 2018. Retrieved January 13, 2014.

alanwood.id.au (Global: low place; English: low place)

Wood, Alan. "F 🇦🇺 Words & Phrases in the Illustrated Dictionary of Australian English". alanwood.au. Retrieved October 24, 2025.

archive.org (Global: 6^th place; English: 6^th place)

Read, Allen Walker (2002). "Where Does That Word Come From?". Milestones in the History of English in America. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. pp. 277–300. ISBN 0-8223-6526-X.

bbc.co.uk (Global: 11^th place; English: 10^th place)

bbc.co.uk

McIntosh, Steven (April 9, 2017). "Why do University Challenge contestants go viral?". BBC News. Archived from the original on January 19, 2025. Retrieved January 24, 2025.

news.bbc.co.uk

Douglas, Torin (April 4, 2001). "Time called on FCUK posters". BBC News. Archived from the original on May 15, 2026. Retrieved June 21, 2026.

bbfc.co.uk (Global: 359^th place; English: 282^nd place)

BBFC page for Bronco Bullfrog Archived November 24, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, under "insight" section – LANGUAGE: Infrequent strong language ('f**k') occurs, as well as a single written use of very strong language ('c**t') which appears as graffiti on a wall.

books.google.com (Global: 3^rd place; English: 3^rd place)

Christian, Brian (March 1, 2011). The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. p. 208. ISBN 978-0-385-53307-2. Archived from the original on July 22, 2023. Retrieved December 24, 2021.
Dunbar, William (2003). Selected poems (1st ed.). New York: Routledge. p. 45. ISBN 0415969433. Archived from the original on July 22, 2023. Retrieved February 8, 2021.
Silverton, Peter (2011). Filthy English: The How, Why, When and What of Everyday Swearing. London: Portobello Books. ISBN 9781846274527. Archived from the original on January 27, 2019. Retrieved July 4, 2018.

bustle.com (Global: 1,175^th place; English: 687^th place)

Bines, Ari (October 23, 2019). "FCUK By French Connection Is Coming & It's BOLD AF". Bustle. Archived from the original on June 13, 2021. Retrieved February 24, 2021.

cambridge.org (Global: 209^th place; English: 151^st place)

dictionary.cambridge.org

"Fuck All | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary". Archived from the original on February 18, 2023. Retrieved December 21, 2023.

catb.org (Global: 7,578^th place; English: 6,551^st place)

Raymond, Eric S (September 24, 1999). "fscking". The Jargon File. Archived from the original on January 3, 2009. fcking: /fus'-king/ or /eff'-seek-ing/ adj. [Usenet; common] Fucking, in the expletive sense (it refers to the Unix filesystem-repair command fsck(1), of which it can be said that if you have to use it at all you are having a bad day). Originated on {scary devil monastery} and the bofh.net newsgroups, but became much more widespread following the passage of {CDA}. Also occasionally seen in the variant 'What the fsck?'

cbc.ca (Global: 110^th place; English: 65^th place)

"New edition of Canadian Press handbook includes infamous four-letter word". CBC News. August 14, 2005. Archived from the original on April 30, 2008. Retrieved June 1, 2013.

cnn.com (Global: 36^th place; English: 26^th place)

edition.cnn.com

"Supreme Court to weigh foul language trademark – CNN Video". CNN. Archived from the original on April 17, 2019. Retrieved April 18, 2019.

dictionary.com (Global: 1,672^nd place; English: 1,248^th place)

"fuck". Dictionary.com Unabridged (Online). n.d. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
"MILF". Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House. Archived from the original on March 4, 2021. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
"WTF". Dictionary.com Unabridged (Online). n.d. Retrieved February 15, 2021.
"STFU". Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House. Archived from the original on January 13, 2021. Retrieved February 15, 2021.
"FML". Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House. Archived from the original on April 17, 2021. Retrieved February 15, 2021.
"f-bomb". Dictionary.com Unabridged (Online). n.d. Retrieved March 4, 2021.

doi.org (Global: 2^nd place; English: 2^nd place)

Hobbs, Pamela (2013). "Fuck as a metaphor for male sexual aggression" (PDF). Gender and Language. 7 (2): 149–176. doi:10.1558/genl.v7i2.149. ISSN 1747-6321. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 24, 2015.
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. doi:10.3828/transactions.164.9.
McMillan, James B. (1980). "Infixing and Interposing in English". American Speech. 55 (3): 163–183. doi:10.2307/455082. JSTOR 455082.

earthlink.net (Global: 9,560^th place; English: 6,953^rd place)

home.earthlink.net

Hobbs, Pamela (2013). "Fuck as a metaphor for male sexual aggression" (PDF). Gender and Language. 7 (2): 149–176. doi:10.1558/genl.v7i2.149. ISSN 1747-6321. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 24, 2015.

etymologiebank.nl (Global: 5,789^th place; English: 6,803^rd place)

"Zoekresultaten". etymologiebank.nl. Archived from the original on October 23, 2021. Retrieved December 11, 2021.

etymonline.com (Global: 669^th place; English: 670^th place)

"woman". Online Etymology Dictionary. Archived from the original on June 24, 2020. Retrieved July 8, 2020.

exclaim.ca (Global: 803^rd place; English: 403^rd place)

Sutherland, Sam (2007). "What the Fuck? Curse Word Band Names Challenge The Music Industry". Exclaim! Magazine. Archived from the original on January 3, 2015. Retrieved October 30, 2007.

faroutmagazine.co.uk (Global: 2,502^nd place; English: 1,522^nd place)

Golsen, Tyler (October 24, 2023). "What was the first song to include the word "fuck"?". Far Out. Archived from the original on December 20, 2025. Retrieved July 29, 2025.
Taylor, Tom (September 7, 2023). "Phoebe Bridgers' debut album was inspired by 'The Big Lebowski'". Far Out Magazine. Archived from the original on February 8, 2026.

fortune.com (Global: 647^th place; English: 421^st place)

Collins, Terry (June 24, 2019). "FUCT Clothing Can Now Get Trademark Protection, Supreme Court Rules". Fortune. Archived from the original on June 24, 2019. Retrieved June 24, 2019.

gdst.net (Global: low place; English: low place)

oxfordhigh.gdst.net

"Miriam Margolyes". Oxford High. Oxford High School. Archived from the original on July 25, 2020. Retrieved July 24, 2020.

groups.google.com (Global: 2,153^rd place; English: 1,445^th place)

Huff, David D. Jr. (2002). "Re: Mandrake 8.2 Musings". Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.mandrake. Archived from the original on November 10, 2012. Retrieved May 10, 2016. At some point in your Linux career you should ask yourself: 'If there are 3.4 million successful, happy Mandrake users...what the fsck is wrong with me?'

indo-european.info (Global: low place; English: low place)

"J. Pokorny's Indo-European Etymological Dictionary". indo-european.info. Archived from the original on August 22, 2021. Retrieved December 11, 2021.

jstor.org (Global: 23^rd place; English: 15^th place)

McMillan, James B. (1980). "Infixing and Interposing in English". American Speech. 55 (3): 163–183. doi:10.2307/455082. JSTOR 455082.

ligali.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

Millwood Hargrave, Andrea (2000). "Delete Expletives?: Research Undertaken Jointly by the Advertising Standards Authority, British Broadcasting Corporation, Broadcasting Standards Commission and the Independent Television Commission" (PDF). Advertising Standards Authority. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 5, 2021. Retrieved June 1, 2013.

merriam-webster.com (Global: 425^th place; English: 373^rd place)

"Definition of Fuck All". www.merriam-webster.com. Archived from the original on May 22, 2024. Retrieved December 31, 2023.

oed.com (Global: 743^rd place; English: 419^th place)

dictionary.oed.com

"Fuck." OED Online. Draft Revision, June 2008. Oxford University Press. Accessed August 26, 2008 OED.com Archived November 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine http://public.oed.com/the-oed-today/recent-updates-to-the-oed/previous-updates/march-2008-update/ Archived November 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine

public.oed.com

"Fuck." OED Online. Draft Revision, June 2008. Oxford University Press. Accessed August 26, 2008 OED.com Archived November 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine http://public.oed.com/the-oed-today/recent-updates-to-the-oed/previous-updates/march-2008-update/ Archived November 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine

omnilogos.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

Hughes, Geoffrey (2006). "Fuck". An Encyclopedia of Swearing: The Social History of Oaths, Profanity, Foul Language, and Ethnic Slurs in the English-Speaking World. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015.

openculture.com (Global: 9,015^th place; English: 6,581^st place)

Marshall, Colin (February 11, 2014). "The Very First Written Use of the F Word in English (1528)". openculture. Archived from the original on March 1, 2014. Retrieved February 25, 2014.

oxforddictionaries.com (Global: 1,689^th place; English: 1,562^nd place)

en.oxforddictionaries.com

"occupy". Oxford Dictionaries. Archived from the original on July 5, 2018. Retrieved July 4, 2018.

rnw.nl (Global: low place; English: 8,449^th place)

"German beer can call itself fking hell". RNW.nl. Archived from the original on March 29, 2010.

rollingstone.com (Global: 57^th place; English: 39^th place)

Greene, Andy (September 4, 2008). "Lebowski on the web". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on August 30, 2008.

salon.com (Global: 683^rd place; English: 407^th place)

Mohr, Melissa (May 11, 2013). "The modern history of swearing: Where all the dirtiest words come from". Salon. Archived from the original on June 7, 2013. Retrieved June 3, 2013.

slate.com (Global: 409^th place; English: 260^th place)

Carey, Stan (April 27, 2015). "OMFG! Sweary Abbreviations FTFW!". Slate. Archived from the original on May 7, 2021. Retrieved February 15, 2021.
Haglund, David (August 14, 2012). "The F-Bomb and Gary Carter: Did the late Mets catcher invent the phrase?". Slate Magazine. Archived from the original on November 17, 2015. Retrieved November 16, 2015.

snopes.com (Global: 1,669^th place; English: 1,125^th place)

"snopes.com: Etymology of Fuck". Snopes.com. July 8, 2007. Archived from the original on April 17, 2022. Retrieved December 9, 2013.

spectator.co.uk (Global: 2,174^th place; English: 1,145^th place)

new.spectator.co.uk

Wordsworth, Dot (September 26, 2015). "The remarkable discovery of Roger Fuckebythenavele: An exciting discovery in the records of the County Court of Chester – but it's probably not the oldest F-word". The Spectator. Archived from the original on November 1, 2015. Retrieved October 24, 2015.

telegraph.co.uk (Global: 40^th place; English: 27^th place)

Gosden, Emily (September 13, 2015). "Earliest use of f-word discovered in court records from 1310". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on October 19, 2015. Retrieved October 24, 2015.
"The Graham Norton Show: the 15 funniest guests". The Telegraph. September 29, 2017. Archived from the original on February 13, 2019. Retrieved February 13, 2019 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.

the-toast.net (Global: low place; English: low place)

McCulloch, Gretchen (December 9, 2014). "A Linguist Explains the Syntax of 'Fuck'". the Toast. Archived from the original on November 1, 2020. Retrieved January 12, 2021.

theatlantic.com (Global: 322^nd place; English: 198^th place)

Bella, Timothy (May 24, 2012). "The '7 Dirty Words' Turn 40, but They're Still Dirty". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on January 2, 2014. Retrieved February 15, 2021.

theconversation.com (Global: 840^th place; English: 594^th place)

Shulist, Sarah; McElgunn, Hannah (October 7, 2022). "Politicians dropping the F-bomb: There's more to it than you might think". The Conversation. Archived from the original on September 12, 2025. Retrieved January 5, 2026.

theguardian.com (Global: 16^th place; English: 11^th place)

Robertson, Geoffrey (October 22, 2010). "The trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover". The Guardian. Archived from the original on December 1, 2016. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
Moran, Joe (August 16, 2013). "Television's magic moments". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on September 9, 2013. Retrieved September 27, 2013.
Lawson, Mark (February 5, 2004). "Has swearing lost its power to shock? | UK news". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on August 21, 2017. Retrieved November 11, 2011.

thestranger.com (Global: 4,496^th place; English: 2,480^th place)

Vernon, Jesse (September 24, 2009). "A Scholarly Explication of Fuck". The Stranger. Archived from the original on May 17, 2021. Retrieved March 4, 2021.

uoregon.edu (Global: 3,189^th place; English: 1,887^th place)

journalism.uoregon.edu

Bivins, Tom. "Euphemism definitions and list" (PDF). Persuasion and Ethics. University of Oregon. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 3, 2013. Retrieved June 1, 2013.

vanityfair.com (Global: 230^th place; English: 161^st place)

Slawenski, Kenneth (January 20, 2011). "Holden Caulfield's Goddam War". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on March 27, 2021. Retrieved February 9, 2021.

vice.com (Global: 247^th place; English: 175^th place)

Pearl, Mike (September 13, 2015). "We Interviewed the Historian Who Just Found the Oldest Use of the Word 'Fuck'". Vice. Archived from the original on October 17, 2015. Retrieved October 24, 2015. Paul Booth: "The significance is the occurrence of (possibly) the earliest known use of the word 'fuck' that clearly has a sexual connotation."
Lindsay, Cam (2013). "How do Fuck Buttons Pronounce Their Name to Children?". Vice. Archived from the original on March 7, 2020. Retrieved November 11, 2022.

vloek.co.za (Global: low place; English: low place)

"When a word is befok ... (AGW 2021)". vloek.co.za (in Afrikaans). September 28, 2021. Archived from the original on October 9, 2021. Retrieved December 11, 2021.

washingtontimes.com (Global: 1,359^th place; English: 789^th place)

Italie, Leanne. "F-bomb makes it into mainstream dictionary". The Washington Times. Archived from the original on August 15, 2012. Retrieved August 15, 2012.

web.archive.org (Global: 1^st place; English: 1^st place)

Millwood Hargrave, Andrea (2000). "Delete Expletives?: Research Undertaken Jointly by the Advertising Standards Authority, British Broadcasting Corporation, Broadcasting Standards Commission and the Independent Television Commission" (PDF). Advertising Standards Authority. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 5, 2021. Retrieved June 1, 2013.
Bivins, Tom. "Euphemism definitions and list" (PDF). Persuasion and Ethics. University of Oregon. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 3, 2013. Retrieved June 1, 2013.
Christian, Brian (March 1, 2011). The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. p. 208. ISBN 978-0-385-53307-2. Archived from the original on July 22, 2023. Retrieved December 24, 2021.
"New edition of Canadian Press handbook includes infamous four-letter word". CBC News. August 14, 2005. Archived from the original on April 30, 2008. Retrieved June 1, 2013.
Hobbs, Pamela (2013). "Fuck as a metaphor for male sexual aggression" (PDF). Gender and Language. 7 (2): 149–176. doi:10.1558/genl.v7i2.149. ISSN 1747-6321. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 24, 2015.
"Fuck." OED Online. Draft Revision, June 2008. Oxford University Press. Accessed August 26, 2008 OED.com Archived November 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine http://public.oed.com/the-oed-today/recent-updates-to-the-oed/previous-updates/march-2008-update/ Archived November 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
"When a word is befok ... (AGW 2021)". vloek.co.za (in Afrikaans). September 28, 2021. Archived from the original on October 9, 2021. Retrieved December 11, 2021.
"J. Pokorny's Indo-European Etymological Dictionary". indo-european.info. Archived from the original on August 22, 2021. Retrieved December 11, 2021.
"Zoekresultaten". etymologiebank.nl. Archived from the original on October 23, 2021. Retrieved December 11, 2021.
"snopes.com: Etymology of Fuck". Snopes.com. July 8, 2007. Archived from the original on April 17, 2022. Retrieved December 9, 2013.
McCulloch, Gretchen (December 9, 2014). "A Linguist Explains the Syntax of 'Fuck'". the Toast. Archived from the original on November 1, 2020. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
Mohr, Melissa (May 11, 2013). "The modern history of swearing: Where all the dirtiest words come from". Salon. Archived from the original on June 7, 2013. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
Hughes, Geoffrey (2006). "Fuck". An Encyclopedia of Swearing: The Social History of Oaths, Profanity, Foul Language, and Ethnic Slurs in the English-Speaking World. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015.
Pearl, Mike (September 13, 2015). "We Interviewed the Historian Who Just Found the Oldest Use of the Word 'Fuck'". Vice. Archived from the original on October 17, 2015. Retrieved October 24, 2015. Paul Booth: "The significance is the occurrence of (possibly) the earliest known use of the word 'fuck' that clearly has a sexual connotation."
Wordsworth, Dot (September 26, 2015). "The remarkable discovery of Roger Fuckebythenavele: An exciting discovery in the records of the County Court of Chester – but it's probably not the oldest F-word". The Spectator. Archived from the original on November 1, 2015. Retrieved October 24, 2015.
Gosden, Emily (September 13, 2015). "Earliest use of f-word discovered in court records from 1310". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on October 19, 2015. Retrieved October 24, 2015.
Dunbar, William (2003). Selected poems (1st ed.). New York: Routledge. p. 45. ISBN 0415969433. Archived from the original on July 22, 2023. Retrieved February 8, 2021.
Marshall, Colin (February 11, 2014). "The Very First Written Use of the F Word in English (1528)". openculture. Archived from the original on March 1, 2014. Retrieved February 25, 2014.
Silverton, Peter (2011). Filthy English: The How, Why, When and What of Everyday Swearing. London: Portobello Books. ISBN 9781846274527. Archived from the original on January 27, 2019. Retrieved July 4, 2018.
Vernon, Jesse (September 24, 2009). "A Scholarly Explication of Fuck". The Stranger. Archived from the original on May 17, 2021. Retrieved March 4, 2021.
Carey, Stan (April 27, 2015). "OMFG! Sweary Abbreviations FTFW!". Slate. Archived from the original on May 7, 2021. Retrieved February 15, 2021.
Bella, Timothy (May 24, 2012). "The '7 Dirty Words' Turn 40, but They're Still Dirty". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on January 2, 2014. Retrieved February 15, 2021.
"Fuck All | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary". Archived from the original on February 18, 2023. Retrieved December 21, 2023.
"Definition of Fuck All". www.merriam-webster.com. Archived from the original on May 22, 2024. Retrieved December 31, 2023.
Robertson, Geoffrey (October 22, 2010). "The trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover". The Guardian. Archived from the original on December 1, 2016. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
Slawenski, Kenneth (January 20, 2011). "Holden Caulfield's Goddam War". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on March 27, 2021. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
"ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000". American Library Association. July 20, 2009. Archived from the original on September 28, 2018. Retrieved January 13, 2014.
"Miriam Margolyes". Oxford High. Oxford High School. Archived from the original on July 25, 2020. Retrieved July 24, 2020.
McIntosh, Steven (April 9, 2017). "Why do University Challenge contestants go viral?". BBC News. Archived from the original on January 19, 2025. Retrieved January 24, 2025.
"The Graham Norton Show: the 15 funniest guests". The Telegraph. September 29, 2017. Archived from the original on February 13, 2019. Retrieved February 13, 2019 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
Moran, Joe (August 16, 2013). "Television's magic moments". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on September 9, 2013. Retrieved September 27, 2013.
Lawson, Mark (February 5, 2004). "Has swearing lost its power to shock? | UK news". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on August 21, 2017. Retrieved November 11, 2011.
"First films to use 'fuck' and 'cunt' words in movie history (1963–1976)". YouTube. February 18, 2019. Archived from the original on February 29, 2020. Retrieved February 19, 2019.
BBFC page for Bronco Bullfrog Archived November 24, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, under "insight" section – LANGUAGE: Infrequent strong language ('f**k') occurs, as well as a single written use of very strong language ('c**t') which appears as graffiti on a wall.
Golsen, Tyler (October 24, 2023). "What was the first song to include the word "fuck"?". Far Out. Archived from the original on December 20, 2025. Retrieved July 29, 2025.
Shulist, Sarah; McElgunn, Hannah (October 7, 2022). "Politicians dropping the F-bomb: There's more to it than you might think". The Conversation. Archived from the original on September 12, 2025. Retrieved January 5, 2026.
Douglas, Torin (April 4, 2001). "Time called on FCUK posters". BBC News. Archived from the original on May 15, 2026. Retrieved June 21, 2026.
Bines, Ari (October 23, 2019). "FCUK By French Connection Is Coming & It's BOLD AF". Bustle. Archived from the original on June 13, 2021. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
"German beer can call itself fking hell". RNW.nl. Archived from the original on March 29, 2010.
"Supreme Court to weigh foul language trademark – CNN Video". CNN. Archived from the original on April 17, 2019. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
Collins, Terry (June 24, 2019). "FUCT Clothing Can Now Get Trademark Protection, Supreme Court Rules". Fortune. Archived from the original on June 24, 2019. Retrieved June 24, 2019.
Sutherland, Sam (2007). "What the Fuck? Curse Word Band Names Challenge The Music Industry". Exclaim! Magazine. Archived from the original on January 3, 2015. Retrieved October 30, 2007.
Lindsay, Cam (2013). "How do Fuck Buttons Pronounce Their Name to Children?". Vice. Archived from the original on March 7, 2020. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
Haglund, David (August 14, 2012). "The F-Bomb and Gary Carter: Did the late Mets catcher invent the phrase?". Slate Magazine. Archived from the original on November 17, 2015. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
Italie, Leanne. "F-bomb makes it into mainstream dictionary". The Washington Times. Archived from the original on August 15, 2012. Retrieved August 15, 2012.
Greene, Andy (September 4, 2008). "Lebowski on the web". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on August 30, 2008.
Taylor, Tom (September 7, 2023). "Phoebe Bridgers' debut album was inspired by 'The Big Lebowski'". Far Out Magazine. Archived from the original on February 8, 2026.
Huff, David D. Jr. (2002). "Re: Mandrake 8.2 Musings". Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.mandrake. Archived from the original on November 10, 2012. Retrieved May 10, 2016. At some point in your Linux career you should ask yourself: 'If there are 3.4 million successful, happy Mandrake users...what the fsck is wrong with me?'
"woman". Online Etymology Dictionary. Archived from the original on June 24, 2020. Retrieved July 8, 2020.
"occupy". Oxford Dictionaries. Archived from the original on July 5, 2018. Retrieved July 4, 2018.
"MILF". Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House. Archived from the original on March 4, 2021. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
"STFU". Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House. Archived from the original on January 13, 2021. Retrieved February 15, 2021.
"FML". Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House. Archived from the original on April 17, 2021. Retrieved February 15, 2021.

webcitation.org (Global: 25^th place; English: 771^st place)

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