Date:  Tue, 26 Mar 1996 09:33:56 -0600

From:  Natalie Maynor <maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

Subject: Re: Lavatory = ?



> other room in the house. (For what it's worth, though, we simply called the

> toilet "the toilet." For some reason, my mother considered the term "commode"

> trashy.)



Although I don't remember ever hearing the toilet/commode variation

discussed, I think your mother's attitude was probably not unusual.

  --Natalie (maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ra.msstate.edu)

   happy that I would have passed your mother's social test --

   I've always said "toilet"