{"id":4655,"date":"2019-07-17T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T04:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/?p=4655"},"modified":"2019-07-16T11:01:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T05:31:22","slug":"thats-the-word-for-it-eructation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/17\/thats-the-word-for-it-eructation\/","title":{"rendered":"That’s the Word for It: Eructation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"This fancy version of the burp came into use in the fifteenth century. Eructation is a medical problem for some and mostly it’s an expression of a satisfied stomach.<\/p>\n

The word has been used in books in interesting ways:<\/p>\n

\u201cSlang, too, is the wholesome fermentation or eructation<\/strong><\/em> of those processes eternally active in language, by which froth and specks are thrown up, mostly to pass away; though occasionally to settle and permanently crystallize.\u201d
\n\u2015 Walt Whitman<\/p>\n

\u201cHere at any rate is Ignatius Reilly, without progenitor in any literature I know of\u2014slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one\u2014who is in violent revolt against the entire modern age, lying in his flannel nightshirt, in a back bedroom on Constantinople Street in New Orleans, who between gigantic seizures of flatulence and eructations<\/strong><\/em> is filling dozens of Big Chief tablets with invective.\u201d
\n\u2015 John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces<\/em><\/p>\n

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This fancy version of the burp came into use in the fifteenth century. Eructation is a medical problem for some and mostly it’s an expression of a satisfied stomach. The word has been used in books in interesting ways: \u201cSlang, too, is the wholesome fermentation or eructation of those processes eternally active in language, by … Continue reading “That’s the Word for It: Eructation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[251],"tags":[298,299],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7vAZr-1d5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4763,"url":"https:\/\/pothi.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/25\/thats-the-word-for-it-excursus\/","url_meta":{"origin":4655,"position":0},"title":"That's the Word for It: Excursus","date":"September 25, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The literary term excursus has to do with a more neutral sort of digression. 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