Crazy ABC's by Barenaked Ladies

[thnidu]

[hat-tip to kai_mikael]

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But it's "foehn", guys.

I couldn't make out the word for "N". A commenter says it's Ndomo, which Google turns up mostly as the name of Atelier Ndomo in Segou, Mali.

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[thnidu]

Which came first, the pigmeat or the laming? Well, sir, the OED saith (in historical/chronological order):

ham
A. n.¹
 I.
 1.
 a. That part of the leg at the back of the knee; the hollow or bend of the knee.
 b. By extension: The back of the thigh; the thigh and buttock collectively. Usually in pl. [*]
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 2. The thigh of a slaughtered animal, used for food; spec. that of a hog salted and dried in smoke or otherwise; also, the meat so prepared.
...
[*] Hamlet II.2. Hamlet to Polonius:
Slanders, sir. For the satirical rogue says here that old men have gray beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams-all which, sir, though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down; for yourself, sir, should be old as I am, if like a crab you could go backward.

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hamstring, n.
 a. In human anatomy, one of the tendons (four inner and one outer) which form the sides of the ham or space at the back of the knee; they are the tendons of the semimembranosus, semitendinosus, gracilis, sartorius, and biceps muscles of the thigh.
 b. In quadrupeds, the great tendon at the back of the ‘knee’ or hough in the hind leg; it is the tendo Achillis, corresponding to that of the heel in man.

hamstring, v.
 1. trans. To cut the hamstrings of, so as to lame or disable...

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So
ham A.I.1.b > ham 2
and
ham A.I.1.a > hamstring (n) > hamstring (v)