From "I'll be Back" to "Hasta La Vista, Baby", Arnold Schwarzenegger has always had a way with words.

But the charismatic California governor raised more than a few eyebrows with the wording of a recent letter to a political opponent announcing his intention to veto financing for a San Francisco waterfront project.

Viewed as a letter, Republican Schwarzenegger's missive to San Francisco assemblyman Tom Ammiano, a Democrat, appeared to convey a not-so-hidden message.

Read vertically, the first letter of each line spelt an obscene two-word insult, the first word beginning with "F" and the second word being "You."

Local media reports speculated that the message was the result of Ammiano's recent heckling of Schwarzenegger at a Democratic gala event.

Ammiano, who is gay, was reportedly angry at Schwarzenegger over state budget cuts which slashed funding to AIDS programs.

However Schwarzenegger's spokesperson Aaron McClear said on Wednesday that the odd wording was nothing more than a quirk of coincidence.

"It was a strange coincidence," McClear told AFP. "We draft hundreds of letters each year and it was just a coincidence, nothing more to it than that."

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