[at-l] The word, Privy

[dfaddleton@mindspring.com (David)]

I grew up hearing the word "privy" and "w-c" or "water-closet" used interchangeably, referencing what Americans call a "bathroom" at home or the "lavatory" at school; and the word "out-house" at my home meant what on the AT gets called a "privy" . . . a funny euphemism to me because it's also often used to refer to someone "in the loop" so to speak, as in "He was privy to all of Victoria's secrets."


On 1/24/2001 at 5:47 AM Schuyler Stultz wrote:

>Heh Heh, I work for a computer security company, so
>PRIVacy and PRIVIty are words that we kick around
>quite a bit.  but, I must admit, every time I come
>across one of them, I mentally "hear" PRIVY and have a
>nice little private chuckle.  
>
>Anyone else have some words they hear a lot in day to
>day life that get morphed into trail words?
>
>
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