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From: collim@anubis.network.com (Mike Collins)
Subject: Re: Dialling (was Re: Is '#' a "pound sign" or what?)
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In article <4h5bkf$mq@clarknet.clark.net>, gusty@clark.net says...
>
>Andy Holden (A.B.Holden@ncl.ac.uk) wrote:
>:  I've never heard of the singer, or the verb - how does that work? "I 
>: will buffet you some food"?
>
>The verb has nothing to do with food, but rather has the meaning "to 
>strike", "to hit repeatedly", "to contend with". RHUD2 gives the example 
>"the wind buffeted the house". It further says--
>
>        -- the food version and the violent version of "buffet" are of
>                separate origins, the former being of obscure provenance
>
>        -- the violence version can also be used as a noun: "despite
>                constant buffets by the shark, the boat didn't capsize"

When I lived in France, I took a years' glider tuition. When a glider gets 
into the slipstream of the aeroplane that is towing it, the pilot feels a 
stong buffetting effect, telling him that he shouldfly higher to get out 
of the turbulent air. My French instructor referred to this a "Le 
buffetting" (pron beeuf-ting, more or less).

"Ne sentes-tu pas le buffetting? Il faut monter un peu!"

Mike.

