Date:  Tue, 26 Mar 1996 10:11:59 -0500

From:  Tom Creswell <creswell[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CROWN.NET>

Subject: Re: Lavatory = ?



-- [ From: Tom Creswell * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] --



I am surprised to learn that none of those responding to this thread use the

terms I have usd all my life. Born in 1920 and raised on south side Chicago

, for me, the hands and face washing utility in what we always called the

BATHROOMis a WASHBOWL.



The dishwashing utility in the kitchen usually was referred to simply as

the SINK, the context usually making clear that it was the facility in the

kitchen--"Put the dishes in the sink, when you're finished." But we also

had the idiom "Threw everything in but the kitchen sink."Downstairs in the

basement was a LAUNDRY TUB.



The euphemisms we learned as children for excretory acts were "NUMBER 1" and

"NUMBER 2." I leave it to those of you who learned other terms to guess

which act each refers to. In the Catholic boys school I attended, we asked

permission to "Leave the room," If permission was granted we went to the

"boys bathroom .":



Tom Creswell