Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 16:04:24 CDT

From: Randy Roberts robertsr[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]EXT.MISSOURI.EDU

Subject: jakes



Joan: I have no personal knowledge of jakes = privy. I would mention

several "modern" uses. E. H. Babbitt, "College Words and Phrases"

Dialect Notes, II, Part I, 1900. Jake = water closet for men.



Time, 22 April 1957, page 116. Jakes is used twice within a review

of The Feast of Lupercal by Brian Moore. ". . . the writing is on

the jakes wall for . . . "



Esquire, December 1977, page 134. ". . . to the basement lavatory

(where, it turns out, the jakes are placed in stalls that lack doors,

open with primitive simplicity to the airs) . . . "



Randy Roberts

robertsr[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ext.missouri.edu