"pee" goes standard

Amy West medievalist at W-STS.COM
Mon Jan 14 13:41:25 UTC 2013


On 1/14/13 12:00 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> Date:    Sun, 13 Jan 2013 15:17:55 +0000
> From:    Charles C Doyle<cdoyle at UGA.EDU>
> Subject: Re: "pee" goes standard
>
> In the awfully decorous American South nowadays, I will commonly hear a young woman casually declare, to a group consisting of college students of both sexes and one or more professors, "I gotta go pee."  TMI?
>
> --Charlie
A dr. friend says, "I have to go void."

---Amy West

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