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From: deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Scatology in spanish
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In article <D52nKH.o0@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>,
Daniel M. German <dmg@csg.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>"Guano" is the excrement of sea birds, common in some islands of
>Peru and Chile. "Caca" is any excrement.

*Just* bird excrement?  I've come across the expression "bat guano"
more than once in English (usually in spelunking literature).  Is
this a broadening of the term?

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