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   From: naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
   On 2024-08-03, charles  wrote:   
      
   > The musical instrument known in English as a "bassoon" is known as "fagot"   
   > in French and "faggot" in German. That is based on "bundle of rods".   
      
   The German term is "Fagott".   
      
   The NATO reporting name for the MiG-15 is "Fagot".  As far as I can   
   tell, all of those reporting names are taken from the wider English   
   lexicon.  It's not clear to me whether this one is a variant of   
   "faggot" (bundle of sticks or pieces of iron) or of "fagotto"   
   (bassoon), which are two options offered by Wiktionary.   
      
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