"Fedora" in cultural connotations (Re: redhat logo on gnome menu / menu bar.)

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Mon Sep 29 10:08:14 UTC 2003


Pedro Morais <pmmm at rnl.ist.utl.pt>:
> In Portugal the word fedora isn't used directly, but we've got "fedorenta",
> which means something that stinks :-)

The rare word 'fetor' in English describes a bad smell, especially an animal
or rotting smell.  Clearly a cognate.
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