[Magdalen] Happy Christmas

[Marion Thompson]

When I was in Australia, they called the outhouse a dunny.   I expect 
its etymology would be a trip round the world.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 12/28/2016 9:11 AM, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
> Lynn, I haven't heard that word for years, but the director of a girls' church camp in Michigan was from Australia or New Zealand (I forget which), and she called the outhouses biffies! So, of course, we counselors did, too!
>
>> On Dec 28, 2016, at 1:20 AM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Went to camp near Georgian Bay one very long summer where the bathroom/toilet area was called the Bif or Biffy. Canadian lingo?
>> Lynn
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>> www.ichthysdesigns.com
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>> When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'. attributed to Erma Bombeck
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>> On Dec 27, 2016, at 3:55 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Being multilingual thanks to a very Anglo-centric life including two English husbands,  in Britain bog is slang for bathroom and loo = toilet.
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>> And Charles has given us definitive definitions of fens, bogs, swamps, and the like, which is great.
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>> Marion, a pilgrim
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>>> 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
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>>> 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 ....