Hi Liz,

I'm not surprised your hubby hasn't heard of it.!! Most Brits haven't
either

It's one of those quaint colloquialisms. The UK is strange in that you
have
an accent and sayings in one area but if you go 20 miles away, it's a
totally different accent.

The netty is a North East word. The accent in that area is called the
Geordie accent and it is quite a strong accent with all sorts of
strange
descriptive words and it's own dialect.

Some strong accents in England can't be understood by people in other
areas.
It's like we all have a different language.

I've recently bought some cycling shorts made by "Netti" so I've got
"Netti"
written over my bum which also makes me smile each time I put them
on!!!

Al
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Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2000 9:48 PM
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> Hey, Al, now you have ME laughing! My husband is part
> british, i'm suprised me never mentioned it!
> :)
> --Liz
>
> >
> >I'm still laughing.... !
> >
> >I come from the North East of England.  Imagine a scene from Victorian
> >times... lots of streets of terrace houses, 2 rooms upstairs, 2 room
> >downstairs. Mother is washing a dirty child in a tin bath in the front
room
> >by the coal fire. Father is on his way home from the pit.
> >
> >This is an era before we had bathrooms with inside toilets so  people
used
> >to nip outside to the bottom of the yard and use the outside loo. This
> >brick
> >built outside toilet was called a "netty". It's a term that's just used
in
> >that part of England.
> >
> >The term is still in use even though we now have inside bathrooms (in
most
> >houses!!!).
> >
> >The phase "built like a brick netty" is one that is sometimes used to
> >describe a rather large and stocky person.
> >
> >Enjoy your Neti pot ;-)
> >
> >Al