twww189
16 Jul 2012
Language / The Polish word for fart? [28]
Hello, all my dad's grandparents came from Poland and my own grandparents were raised in Chicago speaking polish. Unfortunately my dad didn't learn much of the language, but he always used the polish word for fart which he pronounced as boo-it-ki. I am now studying polish and looked up fart to see how it is spelled, but only came up with the word bąk and bąki which is kind of similar. Was my dad just horribly mispronouncing the word or is booitki an archaic (great grandparent's time) form?
Also now that I think of it, we used to call my dad's grandmother, my great grandmother busha. I looked up grandma in the dictionary, but only find babka or babcia. Is this another corruption from my family or are these actual words?
Hello, all my dad's grandparents came from Poland and my own grandparents were raised in Chicago speaking polish. Unfortunately my dad didn't learn much of the language, but he always used the polish word for fart which he pronounced as boo-it-ki. I am now studying polish and looked up fart to see how it is spelled, but only came up with the word bąk and bąki which is kind of similar. Was my dad just horribly mispronouncing the word or is booitki an archaic (great grandparent's time) form?
Also now that I think of it, we used to call my dad's grandmother, my great grandmother busha. I looked up grandma in the dictionary, but only find babka or babcia. Is this another corruption from my family or are these actual words?