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)