5/24/2005

CLEAN LANGUAGE

Just a quick question for the Tuesday noon hour: When you have moved just-laundered clothes from the washing machine to the dryer, is it still appropriate to refer to those clothes as “the wash” even though they’ve already been washed? If not, what should you call them?

Posted by Mark @ 11:38 am | | Permalink
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5 Comments

  1. We don’t use “the wash” around here. We use “the laundry.”

    Don’t know if that’s one of those coke-soda-pop things or not.

    Comment by dw — 5/24/2005 @ 11:46 am

  2. Yeah. It’s “dirty laundry”, “wet laundry”, and “clean (or dry) laundry”.

    Comment by Dave — 5/24/2005 @ 1:52 pm

  3. The dry?

    Comment by Kelly — 5/25/2005 @ 5:02 am

  4. We don’t use “the wash” either (and in Arizona, where my parents now live, a “wash” is dry creek/river bed that fill up duirng heavy rain).

    Usually the clean clothes are referred to as “the clean clothes” or “the clothes in the basket”

    Comment by Steven Taylor — 5/28/2005 @ 9:31 am

  5. make that “fills”

    Comment by Steven Taylor — 5/28/2005 @ 9:32 am

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