The insidious arrival in recent years
of the baby-word Poo
in, for example, national and international
newspapers is a further sign of the infantilisation
at work in our culture.
Granted that fæces (and feces) or excrement
might seem too pompous (or grown-up)
there are surely better words.
Keeping the infantilism
but adding a modicum of humour
I suggest Ploppy.
If Americans can freely write Bullshit
in their books and newspapers
and even say it in polite company,
why can the Brit-Irish not say Shit,
which is, as many of us know, an old Germanic word
with cognates in Danish Skid, German Scheiss ?
It's strange that while the Brit-Irish
are shy of, shocked by shit,
the Americans are obsessed by ass*.
*A bowdlerism of arse which necessitated
the use of the odd word donkey
for the lovely, long-eared animal.
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