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On the language side, I have _The Wordsmiths of Gorsemere_ to thank for
introducing me to the term 'the necessary house'. (The Oxford English
Dictionary has lots of instances of use).
On the literature side, the 'Privies' series Alasdair mentioned is
proliferating: John Janaway has done Surrey, Linda Hall is doing
Gloucestershire, and so on. There is also _The Geordie Netty_ by Fank
Graham.
On a completely different level, the forthcoming proceedings of the
conference 'Hollanders uit en thuis' (Hollanders, home and away) will
contain a paper by Sebastiaan Ostkamp and Menno Dijkstra: 'De beerput
van de commandeur van de Zwarte Leeuw te Lisse'.
I am still waiting for my Dutch etymological dictionary to arrive, when
I will find out if 'beerput' (cess-pit) has the etymology which I fondly
imagine it might (it can't really be a pit for used beer, can it???).
Best wishes to all,
Pat
(who once wrote a paper on the use of toilets in the interpretation of
historic sites ....)
--
Pat Reynolds
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"It might look a bit messy now, but just you come back in 500 years time"
(T. Pratchett)
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