Gosh yes, don't they make bodily functions sound decidedly respectable!? I'll have to pass that charming conversation piece on to my boyfriend. Especially as he seems to be under the missaprahension that his farting is for my benefit, far more than his.

And isn't it marvellous how things in nasty mono-syllabled Anglo Saxon smell so much more common and embarrassing, than when lots of mysterious Latiny type syllables are involved?

Must make a Doctors day far less unpleasantly organic. He could be sticking a latexed finger up some old mans bum checking for >horrible common sounding anglo saxon here<, and just as well be sailing the seas with grumbly old Odysseus >mystery Latin term here<.