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From: crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell)
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Subject: Re: Origins of Words
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Date: Sun, 23-Sep-84 20:49:55 EDT
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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.
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    Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin
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