Does anyone really say "tummies"?

Plain English. YES.

Take belly off your bad words list, folks.

I don't like it bags, that's all. Each to his/her own.

Fine, but it's not banned, except by individuals for their own personal use. If they take offence at others' use of it, that's their problem. It is NOT a rude word.

Having a belly-laugh's all right....

No, it's not a rude word, but it does sound coarse (to me) coming from the mouths of small children.

Quite

I wondered why my daughter had started using the word belly, as dahn sarf we never did. Then I remembered that her partner lived oop narth.

Well, I maintain that it only sounds coarse because of prejudice. I'm societal prejudice about words that come from the more northern regions because of their closer association with Old English and Old Norse. That's why I object. I'm not saying anyone has to use the word if they don't want to, but I think it's jolly rude to tell others, who do use it, that it's coarse or rude or something you dislike. It's like telling someone you don't like their hairstyle.

Fine. You don't have to like it. But knidly keep you dislike to yourself.

I'm talking about societal....

People are so careful to be PC about so many other things but criticising perfectly good words as coarse is OK.

Not.

Fat finger, bags?

I'm northern too. None of our family have ever used the word 'belly' when referring to the stomach region - and SIL is Welsh...

Rather like "knidly"

If you like, phoenix. But my fingers aren't fat. More likely I was thinking ahead of my typing.

ana, so what? Is that a reason to dislike it or think it coarse? Rhetorical question. The answer is no.

As I said, the issue is snootiness. Pure and simple.

Actually, I don't think I use the word belly either, but I have no prejudices against other people using it.

Tummyache or stomachache.

FTB – full to busting

TTT – tummy touching table

Any more amusing acronyms for feeling full up after a meal?

After all that, you don't even say it yourself.....

But I defend anyone else's right to use it.

Some people really don't get it about freedom, do they?

Is basing my actions on principles rather than prejudices so strange?

bags I wasn't actually insinuating that you had fat fingers! I do the ahead of myself typing a lot, it's a bit like what Eric Morecambe said to Mr Preview (sic)

Wood delivery arriving. Gotta go and make a wood pile. I'll have a had belly full of wood piles by the time I've finished.

Nobody's said others shouldn't use it, just that they personally don't like it!

Anyway, I've had a bellyful of this and I'll leave you to it...