>tsuwm, could you tell me where/how you found the f-word story on snopes?

yes, I knew it was covered by alt.usage.english, but that link timed out on me so I googled for a mirror of it and snopes was an obvious choice from the first page of results. this is a wonderful exercise for the student who is not yet familiar with using google.com.

as for posh, YCLIU.

(you could look it up)