Coronated!

I thought 'coronated' was a joke word, to be used whe something is not taken seriously.

Didn't Henry VIII have a man to wipe his bottom? Was a very important position back in the day.

I assume Americans think being 'crowned 'is something you do to your teeth!

Dickens I didn’t realise that ‘toileted’ was used anywhere other than Primary Schools.

As a TA I spent a lot of time making sure the kids were all toileted before we left the school building to go anywhere.

I’m sure that someone (a KA?) will be there to ensure that KC has been toileted prior to his coronation.

(And also to make sure that he doesn’t mess about in the boys’ toilets)

NotSpaghetti

I loathe it too!
What is wrong with "crowned"?

It's fallen victim to all those people who say 'language changes'.

I have to say that when Mr M said it the other day he got very short shrift from me...

I loathe it too!
What is wrong with "crowned"?

I agree with you Dickens. I think it is dehumanising and very rude and I think if anyone said that to me I’d scream !

'Coronated' can scarcely be called a development of 'crowned'; it is an extremely ugly word and we do not have to use it.

I think I can just about tolerate "coronated".

What I cannot abide - and it makes me toes curl - is when certain individuals in the medical profession who are designated to help patients to go to the toilet / bathroom, exclaim that they've been "toileted".

Or maybe I'm just being too silly - language changes I know, but for some reason that one just makes me squirm.

Just imagine Charles being "coronated" and then needing to pee immediately afterward - he could be "coronated" and "toileted" all within the same hour.

Funny this could come up because I was just talking about the same thing yesterday. Maybe it is an example of how language changes and develops . It sounds very weird to my ears though.

I also found this from a few years ago. It seems it's the Americans' fault.

Yes, it’s being used all over the gaff.
It looks as if we are stuck with it, I’m afraid

As I said before in Pedants’ Corner, I saw ‘coronated’ in a ‘quality’ American newspaper (IIRC the BostonnGlobe) just after the Queen died - we were across the pond at the time. Might add that a lot of flags in Cape Cod were at half mast - we’d assumed that it was for some notable American but were told no, it was for the Queen.

www.gransnet.com/forums/pedants_corner/1317233-Coronated

This has been mentioned a couple of times before (in Pedants' Corner). There were two threads but I have only managed to find the one.

It hasn't happened for 70 years so people must have forgotten the word.