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Scotland has the earliest record of the F-word
Scotland has the earliest use of the F-word on record. A new BBC documentary looking at the country's affinity for swearing takes a look at a 500-year-old poem containing the first known use of the word.
Dating back to the 16th century, the Bannatyne Manuscript is a collection poems written by George Bannatyne, while he was a bored student locked in his Edinburgh home due to the plague.
In the documentary, Dr Joanna Kopaczyk, a historical linguistics at Glasgow University tells viewers: 'In the Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy, when Kennedy addresses Dunbar, there is the earliest surviving record of the word 'f***' in the world.
'It might never quite make the tourist trail, but here in the National Library we have the first written 'f***' in the world. I think that's something to be proud of'