By 
Matt Danzico, Jessica Oreck
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TED-Ed Original

Mysteries of vernacular: Fizzle

From a stinky and crude inception the word fizzle's history is nothing to poo poo at. Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel track the road from flatulence to its modern meaning of a failure or weak ending.

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