[Ads-l] "the trots (a British colloquialism for diarrhea)"

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> It seems plausible that it might be a British colloquialism - British
> understatement for that matter?


But, is it one that needs explanation to readers of the NYT?


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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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