learning about felching at atticus

The awl (which I love) has a guide to the New Yorker's slow but eventual acceptance of dirty words. The use of "felch" amused me, particularly because I remember being in the company of some of my NHWC crew when I was in the basement of atticus and I learned what it meant. Let's hear it for books...those timeless educators, and for the slow adoption of dirty words.

http://www.theawl.com/2011/05/new-yorker-profanity#more