First recording of the word "Fuck"

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Author: Try · 24.12.2025.

Recording

Context

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The recording was made on March 11, 1885. It has the song "Mary had a little lamb" and most fascinating part, the word "Fuck". Yep thats it, the word fuck lmao.

Recording

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Transcript of the recording:

This record has been inscribed by Mister Sumner Tainter and H. G. Rogers. It’s the eleventh day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty five. [Trilled R] How is this for high! Mary had a little lamb, and its fleece was [...] as [...], and everywhere that Mary went — oh, fuck. [Trilled R] Mary had a little lamb, and its fleece was [...] as [...], and wherever Mary went, the little lamb was sure to go. How is this for high! [Uncertain final syllables as machine glides to a halt]

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