Putin

[Charles Doyle]

The "poot"/"toot" distinction reminds me of two cherished rhymes from my childhood:

Beans, beans, the magic fruit--
The more you eat, the more you poot.
The more you poot, the better you feel:
Let's have beans for every meal!

Sweet potatoes, the musical root--
The more you eat, the more you toot.

For me, "poot" was the normal term for the flatulent phenomenon; "toot" in the second poem was a metaphor.

Once again, it appears that Wilson and I grew up (in eastern Texas) in very similar dialect and folk groups--aside from certain small details like skin color!

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 00:36:34 -0400
>From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
>Subject: Re: Putin
>
>FWIW, I prefer even that to "Pootn," if for no other reason that, for a lot of AmE speakers, including your humble correspondent, pootin' is the same as fartin', though, for other AmE speakers, it's tootin', and not not pootin', that's the same as fartin'.
>
>-Wilson

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