Putin (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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At least his father never referred to the head of the UN as Booty-Booty
Ghali. (The Secretary General so nice, they named him twice.)

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> Remember when the President of the United States said before
> the world, "I call  him 'Pooty-Poot'"?
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>   JL
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> 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'.
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> -Wilson
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> 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.
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> > James Harbeck.
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