Putin

[Wilson Gray]

On 6/6/07, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> The "poot"/"toot" distinction reminds me of two cherished rhymes from my childhood:
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> 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!
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> Sweet potatoes, the musical root--
> The more you eat, the more you toot.
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> For me, "poot" was the normal term for the flatulent phenomenon; "toot" in the second poem was a metaphor.
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> 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!
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> --Charlie
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Exactly so, Charlie! There's only one very trivial difference: "We eat
beans ..." in place of "Let's have beans ..." Otherwise, what you
learned is exactly the same as what I learned, word for word.

-Wilson

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> >Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 00:36:34 -0400
> >From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> >Subject: Re: Putin
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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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