Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!ut-sally!crandell From: crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d,net.nlang Subject: Re: Origins of Words Message-ID: <3442@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Sun, 23-Sep-84 20:49:55 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-sally.3442 Posted: Sun Sep 23 20:49:55 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 08:15:43 EDT References: <1137@eosp1.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 8 Incidentally, the common four-letter word meaning ``urine'', cited recently in this discussion as an example of stigmatized Old English usage, probably came into English from Latin. Its root form is one of the few examples of onamatopoeia (sp?) in that language. -- Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!crandell