Timeline for Is "take a bath" or "bathe" used to mean "take a shower" in some English dialects?
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| Oct 29, 2016 at 9:55 | vote | accept | Elian | ||
| Apr 20, 2016 at 7:25 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is asking users to read people's minds. It's impossible to know for certain if people mean "shower" when they say "bath". | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 14:52 | comment | added | TrevorD | @Mazura You've confirmed that "native speakers" including yourself use bathe to mean take a bath or take a shower, but you don't say native where and your profile doesn't indicate where you are from. Please clarify: English speakers from where - England, USA, India, Australia, ...? | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 9:52 | comment | added | Elian | @Mari-LouA Apparently, some native speakers do use "bathe" and "shower" interchangeably. "By the way, in my area, most people use "shower" and "bathe" interchangeably. I say "I bathe every day", but I mean that I take showers. I don't take baths.)" tellwut.com/surveys/lifestyle/living/… | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 9:30 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | How could anyone prove that a speaker who says: I take a bath every day OR I have a bath everyday OR I bathe everyday is referring to "taking/having a shower"? The term shower is hardly obscure or unusual, is it? Yes, maybe they just mean washing their bodies, in which case a washcloth and a basin could do just as well. | |
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| Apr 18, 2016 at 8:45 | comment | added | Elian | @Mazura You might consider to post this as an answer. :-) | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 8:37 | comment | added | Mazura | A personally attested, yes. I bathe everyday but I can't remember the last time I took a bath. Colloquially, both are either, but much less so with "take a bath". | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 8:17 | comment | added | Elian | @Mazura Do you mean that you already heard some native speaker(s) say "take a bath" or "bathe" to mean "shower/take a shower"? | |
| Apr 18, 2016 at 8:11 | comment | added | Mazura | "to bathe oneself; take a bath or shower" ... Yes. | |
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| Apr 18, 2016 at 3:11 | answer | added | Hot Licks | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 17, 2016 at 23:52 | comment | added | TrevorD | @FumbleFingers I remember that some years ago I said to an American that, to us Brits, a bathroom is a room with a bath. The response was that she had never thought of it like that! Having said that, we have a room containing a toilet & shower, which we tend to call a bathroom rather than a shower room - but we also call the room with a toilet & a bath, a bathroom! | |
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| Apr 17, 2016 at 23:31 | comment | added | WS2 | @Mari-LouA Yes. My wife, who is Malaysian (English and Chinese native speaker) talks about taking a bath when she means a shower. That's even after living in Britain most of her adult life. Fumble Fingers suggests people chez soi (presumably in Britain) say that. But it doesn't really accord with my own experience. | |
| Apr 17, 2016 at 23:22 | comment | added | WS2 | @FumbleFingers I feel sure some Americans talk about going to the bathroom before nipping behind a tree when out for a walk in the country. | |
| Apr 17, 2016 at 21:33 | history | edited | Elian | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 17, 2016 at 21:28 | comment | added | Drew | @FumbleFingers: You are correct, and your memory wrt "pissoir" is probably correct as well. Go to the bathroom is a common AmE euphemism for using the toilet. Bathroom is the most common name for a room, in a house, that has any combination of sink, toilet, bathtub, and shower. Restroom is a common name for a public room that has toilets and possibly urinals. | |
| Apr 17, 2016 at 21:23 | comment | added | Drew | What @AndrewLeach said: Please rephrase the question. It can no doubt be made simpler and clearer. | |
| Apr 17, 2016 at 20:44 | history | edited | Elian | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 17, 2016 at 20:32 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | @Elian You have massively confused the question with your AmE/BrE interpolations. But the biggest confusion is the "[bath of]" in the last sentence, which introduces an ungrammaticality. Just ask the question already! | |
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| Apr 17, 2016 at 19:29 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Are you saying that some native speakers say "take a bath", "bathe" or "bath" in place of "taking/having a shower"? | |
| Apr 17, 2016 at 19:27 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Almost a duplicate of: “to bath” vs “to bathe” | |
| Apr 17, 2016 at 19:24 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Apr 17, 2016 at 17:22 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I've heard people (mainly Americans) talk about going to the bathroom even when it's just a urinal (perhaps without even a washbasin, let alone a bath). It's probably a false memory, but I even seem to recall an American student decades ago saying he was going to the bathroom when it was a pissoir | |
| Apr 17, 2016 at 17:19 | comment | added | Brad | Unless you were going swimming before eating... | |
| Apr 17, 2016 at 17:18 | history | edited | Elian | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 17, 2016 at 17:17 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I've never heard anyone (not even American) say anything like Would you like to bathe before dinner? - it's take a bath or take a shower (or maybe wash [up], but I generally understand that to mean hands and at most face, not whole-body ablution). Chez moi people routinely say they're going to have a bath or go to the bathroom when they're actually talking about the shower [room] (even though they know there's also a bath in a bathroom elsewhere in the house). | |
| Apr 17, 2016 at 17:00 | history | asked | Elian | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
