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Anyone who has encountered WTF in the wild probably knows that its primary meaning is "what the ****," but the W can also stand for various other question words. When I started trawling through early examples in the archive of Usenet newsgroups, I was surprised to discover that this inherent ambiguity has been present in WTF all along, since its first popularization in the mid- to late 1980s. Here are the earliest examples I've found for the different possible expansions…

 

http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2013/09/18/wtf_the_acronym_has_multiple_meanings_and_has_been_around_since_at_least.html?wpisrc=flyouts

 

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