Borden System Words: British Columbia

BC is a gold mine of good words! Please bare in mind that many of these are probably in the water, especially those with the upper East-West designation (third letter) of V, U, or T. We also still have a few slackers: DQ, EP, EQ, FQ, IV, IU, IT, IS, and IR all have no words and I already used up the words from DP in the Alberta words post. However we still have quite a few:

HU – haut, haul
HT – hits, heth, hats, hath, hate
HS – hiss, hest, hast, hasp, hash
HR – hire, hers, hero, herm, herl, here, herd, herb, hart, harp, harm, harl, hark, hare, hard
GU – glut, glum, glug, glue, geum, gaur, gaud
GT – gits, gets, geta, gats, gate
GS – gist, gest, gast, gasp, gash
GR – girt, giro, girl, gird, germ, gars, garb
FU – flux, flus, flue, flub, feud, faux, faun
FT – fits, fete, feta, fats, fate
FS – fist, fish, fisc, fess, fast
FR – firs, firn, firm, fire, fern, fere, fart, faro, farm, farl, fare, fard
ET – efts, eats
ES – else, east, ease
ER – ecru, ears, earn, earl
DS – diss, disk, dish, disc
DR – dirt, dirk, dire

That's a grand total of 96 potential Borden words! Outstanding! Especially compared to Alberta's abysmal 16 words even after I took out a bunch of the sketchy words that the Scrabble thing churned out and for which I couldn't find any good definitions, like "hets", "hist", "hisn", "hern", "gaun", "fets", and "feus". I also took out a few crazy Scots words like "dirl", "girn", "fash" and "eath"(this is despite certain Diana Gabaldon books that I may or may not have read and from which I learned several of these), and a dialect word or two like "gaum" and "dere". FYI: "heth" is the eighth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, a "herm" is a monument or statue consisting of a four-sided column tapering inward from top to bottom with a bust of Hermes on top, "firn" is granular snow accumulated on high mountains and subsequently compacted into glacial ice (or a field of same). Anyway, BC is good because it has several key dirty (both symbolic and literal) words including "fart" and "germ". Fart is clearly the front runner here so far (much better than Sask/Alberta with "dink". No swears yet though. We'll just see what Manitoba has to say.