In a message dated 10/27/1999 12:06:26 PM, flanigan at OAK.CATS.OHIOU.EDU writes: << Come to think of it, "pew" was the more common form in my childhood, with "P.U." a slower exaggerated form. Now "pew" looks more like "phew", so I looked up the latter in my (old) dictionary >> golly! somebody actually looked in a BOOK????