Putin

[Wilson Gray]

"Toot" is preferred up here in Red Sox Nation, too. Some of the more
mature locals may recall "poot" as a bit of onomatopoeia from the old
comic strip, _Pogo_. Otherwise, the local response is, basically,
"'Poot'?! Is that supposed to be English? It's 'toot.' "

-Wilson

On 6/6/07, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> At 8:32 PM -0400 6/6/07, Wilson Gray wrote:
> >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:
> >>
> >>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!
> >>
> >>Sweet potatoes, the musical root--
> >>The more you eat, the more you toot.
> >>
> >>For me, "poot" was the normal term for the flatulent phenomenon;
> >>"toot" in the second poem was a metaphor.
> >>
> >>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!
> >>
> >>--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
>
> My version (NYC) was
>
> Beans, beans, the magical fruit,
> The more you eat, the more you toot.
> The more you toot, the better you feel,
> So eat beans with every meal.
>
> No pootin' allowed.
>
> LH
>
> >>---- Original message ----
> >>>Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 00:36:34 -0400
> >>>From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> >>>Subject: Re: Putin
> >>>
> >>>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
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