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I guess my suggestion does refer to onomatapoeia secondarily, if "pluff" was used that way to refer to flatus before the mud was named for its odor. I wonder if it is possible to find out if this was true.<div> <br><div><div>On 27-May-10, at 2:03 PM, David Frank wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; position: relative; "><div id="ygrp-msg" style="line-height: 1.22em; z-index: 1; "><div id="ygrp-text" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Georgia; "><div class="Section1" style="line-height: 1.22em; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; "><span style="line-height: 1.22em; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">I still think the semantic link is tenuous, but am convinced now that the term "pluff mud" does not come from the English word "plow/plough," and that the spelling "pluff mud" is older than "plough mud," and that it does date back to a Scottish word meaning something like "puff." There really isn't anything light, airy or puffy about pluff mud, and as Donald Frantz and others have pointed out, there seems to be some kind of onomatapoeia or sound symbolism going on.<o style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; "></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; "><span style="line-height: 1.22em; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">-- David Frank</span><o style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; "></o></p><div style="line-height: 1.22em; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; "><o style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 1.22em; "> </o></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div></div>
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