Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 21:48:32 -0700

From: Rudy Troike RTROIKE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU

Subject: Lavatory = ?



Ignore this if it has come up before, but one of my colleagues, from N.

Alabama, notes that the bathroom fixture he washed his hands in was a

lavatory , but his wife (from NYC), for whom this is a wash basin ,

has (hissy?) fits when he calls it a lavatory. I think I originally learned

lavatory as fancy euphemism for "bathroom", but my recollections are too

dim to be sure, though I do recall some confusion over what the term exactly

denoted. Does DARE find a regional difference here, or a chronological one?

Rudy



--Rudy Troike (rtroike[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ccit.arizona.edu)