English - cack, Russian - kaka, Italian - caca, German - kacke, Welsh -
cach.
Etc
Piers
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From: Moose [mailto:olymoose@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 18 December 2009 10:56
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] Dunnies - was Nathan's PAW 48: point and shoot
Chris Barker wrote:
> Thanks, Philippe, but what a surprise!
>
> I had to go and look it up in my Latin dictionary ...
>
Same usage in Spanish. I made a mistake in the Zona Rosa of Mexico City many
years ago, rushing to some destination and thinking I could go back and buy
the T-shirt later. But the store was closed later and I never got back
another day.
The red T-shirt had a perfect looking duplicate of the Coca-Cole logo,
except it said Come-Caca.
Come is an imperative form of comer - to eat.
What can I say? I was much younger then ...
Moose
> On 16 Dec 2009, at 20:14, philippe.amard wrote:
>
>>> Not everyone on the List will know the provenance of "caca".
>>>
>> From Latin, cacare = shit.
>> http://www.cnrtl.fr/etymologie/caca
>>
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