[Sethomas]

I don't know why, but I hate the word "fart". It goes beyond the crassness of the eponymous (ooo, ooo, add that word to the other thread!) bodily function, I just think that there should be a better word for it that sounds right at all levels of literature. Which is the thing, I encounter "fart" in everything, including the most pretentious of Brit Lit. The oldest reference to it I've had is my favorite medieval diddy, "Summer is Icummin In", written in 13th-Century English. "Bulle sterteth, Bucke verteth, murie sing coucu!" (The bull leaps, the buck farts, merrily sing koocoo).

There's no good way to avoid it aside from saying "passing gas". And that is lame.