Whiz & names (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

Those odd Brits don't "take" 'em so much as "have" 'em.

  JL

Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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At 5:59 PM -0500 9/25/07, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
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>And why, for that matter, is it "take" a whiz? I always _leave_ one,
>myself . . .
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Same reason one takes a piss, a shit, a dump,... (Leaving any of
these would be quite different, implying inter alia failure to flush.)

LH

> >
>> FWIW, though I've heard it since ca.1960 and understand "take a whiz,"
>> what I say is, "take a leak." Now, if we all switched to the
>> latter, it would obviate the problem. ;-)
>>
>> -Wilson
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