flour/flower etc.

[Mark Odegard]

This sort of stuff originated when we were smutty-minded, but
ever-so-smart teenagers. You did cute misspellings. Phat for
fat, phuque for the f-word, and if you had access to a really
fancy ball on your IBM Selectric, you did c-cedillas, caron-s,
and other such diacritics for other such words. Yes, we elites
got down and dirty.

Should I post such possibilities in Unicode?

Mark Odegard.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas G. Wilson" <douglas at NB.NET>

>'Phat'? I know it's conventionally associated with 'fat', but
has it been
> conclusively established that it's not just a contraction of
'emphatic'?
> [Cf. 'radical' > 'rad'.]