At 04:56 PM 07/16/2005, Crystal Premo wrote: >I'm quite sure that the "pretty hot and tempting" explanation is not a >fantasy. Both my teenagers consider it common knowledge. They rolled their >eyes at me with impatience when I asked just now.
See <http://www.wordorigins.org/wordorp.htm#phat> "There is no evidence supporting any acronymic origin."
"Pretty hot" etc. may be what some people *now* think this means, but I don't think the word started out that way.
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