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We all fart in our family! my DGD1 is known as queen o'farts in the family! I do think if you acknowledge this perfectly normal bodily function openly it is better than embarrassment!

'Pass wind' 'bottom burp' 'flatulence' 'gas'..which is better than fart?

Posh Man to another dinner guest: Sir, you farted before my wife!

Dinner guest: I am so sorry, I d?d not know it was her turn.

In my family, we never fart, we 'let Nellie out'. . Not me, personally, you understand!

I like that, hummingbird . I think I'll adopt that phrase!

mey its nice of you to stick up for me but I have known jingle since day one on Gransnet. It enough to say that I am not in her fanclub nor is she in mine.

Horses Fart
Men Break wind
Children Pump
and ladies Have it taken away by the fairies

We have one prize farter in the family and I fear that his younger DS is taking after him. Not fragrant.

Well, well! You learn something every day. "Fart" coarse slang!? Blimey! I've always thought it was just an ordinary everyday straightforward word for a fart. Calling someone a fart might be coarse slang, depending how it was said and to whom, but calling a fart a fart is like calling a spade a spade.... surely?

It has four letters. That must be it. Whereas breaking wind has more than four. Maybe we should call farting arse-venting instead.

No it's slang. The official term is 'bottom burp'.

Or even "fart" = "arse vent"

Yeah. Two four letter words instead of one. Gotta be good.

And, hey, they're all Old English words.

Even better.

I's sticking with slang then. Bottom burp is far too poncey for me.

Good grief! Do people actually get upset about farts? I thought it was only kids who made a big deal about farts.

Like they giggle when someone says knickers.

But arse has four letters too,* Bags*

Maybe hyphenating it to venting makes it eleven and acceptable.

Still, I sat down for a rest because I felt a bit blergh. Now I feel a lot better. Thanks, gransnet.

Five people posted while I was typing. I must speed up.

Yes, that was my point, elegran. I think people only object because it has four letters and is an old english word. If we used a french or latin word for fart no-one would object, just as they don't object to excrete but they do object to shit, and they don't object to copulate but the do object to the germanic equivalent even when it means the same as copulate.

and so on.

I think some people just thrive of being offended.

What is french for fart?

it won't be bottom burp.

can I use bum burp instead?

Did somebody say knickers? Heh heh!

What's that well-known rhyme?

Ma's out
Pa's out
Let's talk rude
Pee, po, belly, bum, fart.

Surely we are all being flippant.

Who could possibly be offended by the word fart?

I got it wrong. It's:

pee, po, belly, bum, drawers.

No fart!

petallus I see you're aiming to go out in a blaze of Pre-Lent naughty word glory - getting it all out of your system for the next forty days perhaps? Hmmm, 'getting it all out' - not good

Bags I think the French for fart is pet. There are little light French cakes called "pets do nonne" - nun's farts.

From the same meaning, a petard was a small bomb used to blow up fortifications. It had a tendency to blow up the person lighting the fuse, too, so you could be hoist with your own petard.

We call farts 'jolly woofters'.