mark chimps-do-not-stink Baileyfet·id (ftd, ftd) also foe·tid (ftd)
adj.
Having an offensive odor.
[Middle English, from Latin ftidus, from ftre, to stink.]
fetid·ly adv.
fetid·ness n.
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well what can I say, garbage in-garbage out.Interesting play between the posts: fetid and fêted I guess it doesn't work in British English, as they would write "foetid" for the first.
I was interested in how both words are so alike at least in spelling and so far apart in meaning.
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Aye, the spelling can make a big difference. The Russian pronunciation of "Simon" is "Semyon," but the spelling makes it come out quite differently. The "yo" is actually an "e" with a dieresis. The dieresis is rarely actually printed in Russian texts, so the transliteration is literally "Semen." Oops.
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