Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 23:23:56 -0400

From: Aaron Drews drewsa[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GUSUN.ACC.GEORGETOWN.EDU

Subject: Re: Lexical choice?



On Wed, 4 Oct 1995, wachal robert s wrote:



Friends:



Please respond to this post I received from a former student of mine.



Thanks,



Bob Wachal



Sort of an ADS-L Question for you: Fill in the blank in the following:



Today I have to do the ______________________



(meaning a pile of dirty clothes that should become clean with water & soap in

a machine)



Me, I have to do the (dirty) laundry. My friends in Britain,

they have to do the washing (generally at a launderette... a word I have

never heard on this side of the pond).