"pee" goes standard

[Jonathan Lighter]

> nowadays

JL

On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:

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> 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?
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> --Charlie
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> Headline at Yahoo! News:
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> "Ancient Pompeiians Could Go Upstairs to Pee."
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> In my day polite individuals didn't use this word in public, much less in a
> routine news headline.  You might get a pass if you were a toddler, but
> older than that you'd get a reprimand.
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> JL
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