Putin

[Jonathan Lighter]

Remember when the President of the United States said before the world, "I call  him 'Pooty-Poot'"?

  JL


Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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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

On 6/5/07, James Harbeck wrote:
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> FWIW, Canadian (anglophone) journalists can often be heard
> pronouncing the name "POO-teen." As distinct from, but rather clearly
> reminding of, poutine, which I think I've mentioned here before --
> fries with cheese curds and gravy. Homonymous in French with the dude
> in question. Provokes the odd lame wordplay.
>
> James Harbeck.
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