Date:  Wed, 4 Oct 1995 08:09:50 -0400

From:  Wayne Glowka <wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU>

Subject: Re: Lexical choice?



>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)



laundry, or damn laundry, or . . . never mind



"Wash" works, however.





Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Director of Research and Graduate Student Services

Georgia College

Milledgeville, GA 31061

912-453-4222

wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu