In article <3k48r31fh1n55ogka3krqjnj5vlfnfakid@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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john4721@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> John McKenzie wrote:
> >
> >and one of the students was having dinner with them. In his best
> >English, he said to my grandmother 'may I be excused please, I must go
> >to the ****house'. A few gasps (though to be honest, my grandmother
> >taught me a bunch of swearwords I didn't know) and then all glared at
> >dad. Before they left for the holiday, he would have said toilet, dad
> >'corrected' his English at every sly op****tunity.
>
> My own mother would've winced had he said toilet (it's an
> Americanism). OTOH the old man would've denied ever calling it the
> ****house (which he always did) in her presence.
>
> The problem being it's a literal translation of 'dunnekin' (dung
> house), from which the word 'dunny' is derived (a relatively recent
> addition to our own language AFAIK). All very lower class (in the old
> girl's estimation)... lavatory was the only acceptable term. :)
>
>
All these johns and with nowhere to go.
Thunderbox :-)
Al
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