I like words.
Whenever I see the word “flautist” for example, I think of a professional farter. Flautist, flatulence. See what I mean? They sound alike. It’s even better when someone says it. Flautist.
Cracks me up.
What are some of your favorite words? They don’t have to be related to bathroom humor.
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Dear Sean,
I am your mother-in-law’s friend Mary. She said she thought of me when she read your latest blog. I, too, love words, and think that farts are cause for laughter, no matter what you call them. What she doesn’t know, however, is that I am a flautist. It’s true.
Of course, flautist and flatus and flatulence all come from the same root, so basically when you’re playing the flute, you’re making little puffs of air into it; and when someone farts, they are sometimes playing little tunes (being flautists). It all evens out in the end, so to speak.
I have tons of favorite words. See if you can find the definition for “tappen.” If you can’t find it, I’ll send it to you–not the tappen–the definition (given to me by a former English professor).
Yours,
Mary Cahill
p.s. I’ll see you at the wedding!
This isn’t necessarily my favorite word but rather a word that I like: onomatopoeia. I remember my English teacher telling us about it. It is a word or group of words that are similiar to the sound you make when saying the word. For example, “buzz”, “meow”, “zap,” or “zip.”
In response to Mary’s comment above…farting apparently does have a lot of different names. A few years ago, I heard my mother-in-law and grandmother-in-law say that peanuts make them “poop.” What would you think if you overheard that? Later my husband informed me that means “fart”, “pass gas,” “let her rip.” Who knew?
@Mary, Thanks for coming by. I hope you return often. My research says that tappen makes for a crappy end to a bear’s hibernation.
@bythesea, That’s a good word. Stay away from peanuts.
Puffs sound nice. Mine are more like a blasting horn. I like the word “limerick”. Has a nice ring to it. Here’s one for you GG.
words are powerful, words are cool
say them wrong and you sound like a fool
but the ones I like best
please pardon my jest
they didn’t teach me in school
I love the word plethora… I only bust it out on rare occasions when I feel a conversation needs a little spicing up.
A word I like and learned from my Nana is : afflication. My Nana has always had to use the bathroom a lot and she always tells me “it is an afflication that I have to got the the basement so often”. This brings me to another word, basement. I remembering when I was little asking her why she called the bathroom the basement and she said that she went to parochial school and the bathroom was always in the basement. Then there’s the head. But if you say “I have to go to the head” around non-boating people you tend to get some very wierd looks.
@Soccermama, Hold the details! Cool poem.
@Caity, Do you mean when you want raise the sophistication level?
@Rabbit legs, Thanks for the story!
I like the word rest—–mostly because I like to take rests often. But I do recall an old friend of mine used to say she had to rest, meaning that she had to use the bathroom. At that period in my life, I think I took up the same use of the word.
@Karen, I hope you’re rested.