Oxford English Dictionary take note...

[major_clanger]

CNN on the viral spread of Battlestar Galactica's substitute swear work 'frak'.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/02/tv.what.the.frak.ap/index.html

Comments

[peteyoung.livejournal.com]

I've seen online somewhere a list of science fiction's many alternatives to 'fuck'. 'Frak' tops my list (and beats the hell out of Farscape's rather pathetic 'frell').

[grahamsleight.livejournal.com]

Huh. Didn't remember it was also used in the 70s series, but I at least have a different association for it.

[inamac.livejournal.com]

Not only was it used in the 70s series, it was the title of one of the UK fanzines...

[andrewducker]

Smegging heck!

[pigeonhed.livejournal.com]

I just thought it was a derivative of the widely used 'freakin'.

Didn't US films at one time use 'frig' as a substitute for 'fuck'? Clearly that has a different meaning too.

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

Was it not also used in Judge Dredd?

[snowking.livejournal.com]

Dredd used DROKK! and grud for God.

[blue-condition.livejournal.com]

Stomm! :)

[cuddles-batcave.livejournal.com]

JUDGE DREDD used something like Frakk!

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen much of the latter-day BG, but the article suggests that "frack" has lost its "c" and "felgercarb" has become "feldergarb." Accurate?

Hill Street Blues

[fcw.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)]

I remember Hill Street Blues using 'freak' a lot, usually as 'freaking'.

Re: Hill Street Blues

[non-trivial.livejournal.com]

As does Moe in the Simpsons...

[maeve-the-red.livejournal.com]

Owing to a misspent youth running Shadowrun this one's been in my personal lexicon for a while.