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