Where does “fart“ come from? Why do Brits sometimes call it a “trump“? What other words are used around the world? These questions and many more are answered in my whistle-stop tour of windy-pops. Watch and learn: - Many, many words for fart. - Why Donald's Trump's name makes British people giggle - The origins of words like fart, trump and flatulence - The secret farts buried in everyday words - The French word for a fusillade of flatulence - The Russian words for silent and loud gas - An early use of euphemism to avoid the smelly issue TikTok: @robwords Twitter: ==CHAPTERS== 0:00 Intro 0:18 Donald Trump 1:30 Origin of the word “trump“ 1:49 Where “fart“ comes from 2:10 Fart in other languages 2:30 Secret farts in the language (partridge & pumpernickel) 3:20 Useful foreign fart words 4:00 Where the word “flatulence“ comes from
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