>>>You just gotta abbreviate the super part,
SPUTM. :)
>>>
>>>>What kindof name is that? Anyone got alternatives? I think it should be called PUTM+ (or maybe xPUTM).
>>
>>I still don't get it. Similarity to some bad word, I suppose, but I don't know which one. Probably my lack of English, especially spoken English (I got most of my English knowledge from reading).
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>>Hilmar.
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>Sputum is the 'proper' word for spit. Spit in this case being the liquid stuff in your mouth, not the thing you put through a pig to roast over a fire.
OK, thanks for the clarification. Sounds like "sputum" is the Latin word.
I searched the dictionary in
www.britanica.com, but even though it shows "similar words" in some cases, it didn't work in this case.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)