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Thread #123873   Message #2734667
Posted By: meself
29-Sep-09 - 09:58 PM
Thread Name: 'naughty'; 'bawdy' - what else?
Subject: RE: 'naughty'; 'bawdy' - what else?
I believe it is in To the Lighthouse that Virginia Woolf mentions two sailors "laughing at a joke that was not at all proper".

Has anyone mentioned the term "bathroom humour"? It's gone out of vogue, but I think it's time we brought it back ....


On another matter - in Canada, "Anglo" is usually encountered as a linguistic descriptor - anyone English-speaking, or English-speakers collectively, may be characterised as "Anglo" (or, more properly but more syllabic, "Anglophone").