Piss-house: Link to the OED3 Entry for piss, n.

[George Thompson]

A 325-year antedating?

As Dylan Thomas once said, that must be some sort of a record.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
Date: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 2:03 pm
Subject: Piss-house:  Link to the OED3 Entry for piss, n.

> If you are interested in "piss-house", within this entry you will
> find my 325-year antedating (for the sense "privy").  How long, O
> Lord, how long will I have to wait to see "rambeggur"?  "Shithouse"?
>
> Joel
>
> At 6/20/2006 11:59 AM, you wrote:
> >This link will allow free access to the OED entry piss, n.  for the
> >next three [now two] days.
> >
> >The link is:
>
>http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/display/50180130?keytype=ref&ijkey=T2v5YAfGyzl7g
> >
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