gripe

[Andrew Dinn]

Wolfe, Skip writes:

[re wind vs gas]

> In British English, could it be gas while it's still in the GI tract, 
> causing pain that would make the baby grimace, and wind when it's emitted? 
>  It seems like the separate concepts could merit separate terms, so maybe 
> Pynchon was correct after all.  Just guessing. . .

Nope. It's wind when it's in and wind when it's out, or rather the
latter when it's not a fart, that is - the polite term for the latter
being `breaking wind'. Interesting use of `gripe' in the title which I
guess was intended as a joke since babies are fed `gripe water' to
combat wind.


Andrew Dinn
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