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Re: Colonial Faux Stone
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"Martin C. Tangora" <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:09:18 -0600
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At 01:51 PM 12/21/2010, Larry Simpson wrote:
>There is a word in some of the more complete dictionaries, I think spelled: gurlyloo, 
>which was used to signal pedestrians when dumping a chamber pot from a second story window....
>Larry2

I remember from high-school health education class
that the word was "Gardeeloo," from French "Gardez l'eau,"
or "Look out for the water!"  Not related to the English
word "loo" which comes from French "lieu" meaning "place"
as in "I have to go to the place for a moment."

Have some of you seen the very funny little books
"The loos of London" and " ... of Paris"?

For instance, 
"The loos of Notre-Dame.
The loos of Notre-Dame are located
behind the church of the same name."





Martin C. Tangora
University of Illinois at Chicago
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