My apologies, Mbo & Irish Sergeant. You're right about the spelling, but it was funny because it is pronounced like "farter".

Oh, I just remembered one of the threads sometime in the last year where we were playing around with words and I started rabbiting on about "farticules", "farticular" etc and someone else - was it Andres, or MMario, made it up into a whole set of paragraphs. Anyone remember the thread it was in?

After I posted the (wrong) German word for father and had gone offline I remebered that the German word for Grandmother is Gross-mutter (correct me if I'm wrong) so does this mean that Grandfather is a really gross farter?

Helen