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).