We have just had a debate on the provision of public toilets in our local areas here at the National Assembly for Wales. This is of course a serious issue, especially when the numbers of public toilets available for usage are going down. I have been involved in an issue in Maesteg where the Lib dem administration of the previous Council had closed public toilets in the area.
Nevertheless, I thought it might be interesting for you linguists to know that William Graham, Tory AM tried to get an amendment accepted to change the word 'toilet' in the motion to 'lavatory'. Now, this is a language debate worth having, isn't it Normal Mouth?!
2 comments:
How appropriate, lavaTORY ;-)
Of course, he shouldn't have tabled an amendment. He should have tried to pass a fresh motion :)
I'll get my coat.
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