Communal peeing: a new mode of flood control in ants

[Duane Campbell]

On Sun, 1 Apr 2001 22:16:25 +0100 Jonathon Green

> 'piss' (for which it is, after all, a euphemistic abbreviation), for
> all
> that for a good many centuries, up till the 18th in fact, piss was
> accepted
> as standard English.

My wife's mother (b. 1903 in NE PA) grew up very rural, very poor and
very Methodist. She would get huffy if I said "damn." And yet she used
"piss" as part of her standard vocabulary, which was always jarring to my
ear.

D