[Ads-l] Cutting the cheese

[Laurence Horn]

My favorite fun "fart" fact to trot out in class is the fact that the
Proto-Indo-European source of "fart", Fr. "péter" (as in "hoist on one's
own petard"), et al. can be straightforwardly reconstructed as the
onomatopoeic *prd.  A nice double application of Grimm's Law too.

LH

On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 10:41 AM David Daniel <dad at coarsecourses.com> wrote:

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> https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/fart-words-and-euphemisms?utm_
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> campaign=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=wotd&utm_content=peoplearere
> ading-upperleft
> <https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/fart-words-and-euphemisms?utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=wotd&utm_content=peoplearereading-upperleft>
> M-W article on fart wards has a reference to HDAS under "cutting the
> cheese."
> DAD
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