Originally Posted By: Mike Bonner
Ed Good, it's "sot" not "sod" in this case, as in "a drunken sot" an alcoholic.
Correct-o-- Sot- as in the Shakespeare character Falstaff-- now sod, besides meaning lawn or green grass, as in the Irish blessing(?) Sod you, Mate- refers to the Biblical village of Sodomy--long since "gone with the wind"--


"The field is the touchstone of the man"..