[Magdalen] Happy Christmas

[Marion Thompson]

Being multilingual thanks to a very Anglo-centric life including two 
English husbands,  in Britain bog is slang for bathroom and loo = toilet.

And Charles has given us definitive definitions of fens, bogs, swamps, 
and the like, which is great.

Marion, a pilgrim


On 12/27/2016 3:45 PM, Ann Markle wrote:
> And I thought it was so lovely that your church provided a service for the
> bog people (a swamp here in the US, Marion, not a loo).  They're definitely
> underserved!
>
> Ann
>
> The Rev. Ann Markle
> Buffalo, NY
> ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
>
> On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 2:16 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> To spell cheque, bog is a word, as indeed it is -- just not the one I had
>> in mind. (the big people's service). We have quite a bit of swampland
>> around here. As a matter of fact, a neighbor was draining a pond by his
>> house and found a large bone. He had experts come in, and they ended up
>> camped out in his yard for a while and extracted an entire skeleton of a
>> mammoth. This area was a swamp back then.  I don't think anyone calls it a
>> bog ....
>>
>>