Fomenting a Fermentation

Gah!

It's "Foment" a rebellion, not "ferment"!!

fo·ment /foʊˈmɛnt/
–verb (used with object) ["used with object" !?! we have a word for that in literate-person-land. It's called a "transitive verb". Gah! Even the bloody dictionary is illiterate! Gah!}

1.to instigate or foster (discord, rebellion, etc.); promote the growth or development of: to foment trouble; to foment discontent.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME fomenten < LL fōmentāre, v. deriv. of L fōmentum soothing application, poultice, contr. of *fōvimentum, equiv. to fōv(ére) to keep warm + -i- -i- + -mentum -ment]

—Related forms
fo·ment·er, noun

—Synonyms 1. incite, provoke, arouse, inflame, excite, stir up; encourage, stimulate.
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Gah!

As an MEP for London since 2004, he spends his days in Brussels trying to think up new ways to discredit and dismantle the European Union (or "ferment rebellion" as he describes it).

Oh, and once and for all:

It's "toe the line". It means putting your toes up to a line so that you're in the same spot as everyone else in the line. Like in a military line-up.

It has nothing to do with "towing" anything.


(Gah! Bloody schools! *!^*%**@!!)