Etymology thread.Scholars generally agree that the modern English word breakfast emerged through a gradual process of phonetic smoothing from the earlier Middle English form breakfart.The now-obsolete term appears in several disputed references from the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, where fart carried a broader meaning than it does today. Rather than denoting a specific bodily function, it referred to the expulsion of stale airs, vapours, or the heaviness associated with sleep. To "break one's farts" was therefore understood as the act of dispelling the residue of the night and restoring clarity and vigour at the start of the day.As pronunciation shifted, the consonant cluster proved awkward in rapid speech. Contemporary commentators noted that breakfart was often softened to breakfast, particularly among urban speakers in southern England, who tended to reduce or omit the harder terminal sounds in everyday conversation. By the sixteenth century, the altered form had become standard in written English, while the older variant survived only in regional dialects and rustic humour.Although the original sense has long since been forgotten, traces of the older understanding linger in certain traditional expressions concerning the need to "clear one's head" before beginning the day's work. The modern word breakfast, then, preserves in fossilised form a glimpse of an earlier worldview: one in which the proper commencement of the morning depended not upon nourishment alone, but upon the orderly evacuation of the night's accumulated vapours.
>>25326816damn is this what Rose looks like now? I'm old as shit
The phrase I can see your breakfast was originally, I can smell your breakfarts.
Didn't read but I'd still fuck her in the ass. I can hear it in my head, it goes from a cheeky "mmm yes in the ass quite plendid" to screaming quite quickly but she seems like the proper little slut that doesn't admit her mistake so she'd just take it like a lady. Would probably lick the dick clean too just to prove her worth.
>>25326832hope she got married. tragedy if not
>>25326816Still would.
>>25326816>Scholars generally agree that the modern English word breakfast emerged through a gradual process of phonetic smoothing from the earlier Middle English form breakfart.That's not even remotely true, but ok.
