Does anyone really say "tummies"?

thatbags I think that big jobby is/was a Scottish expression because that is the word that I was brought up with.

A woman wearing white shoes would be "common" in my mother's eyes. Except at school to go with my white dress and veil I have never possessed a pair of white shoes, except trainers.

Oh dear yes. Many things make a woman common (according to my mum). White shoes, smoking in the street, drinking pints, speaking to loudly, swearing, wearing short skirts, wearing low tops, tattoos, too much makeup, badly dyed hair, roots showing through dyed hair....the list is endless.

When we moved to Devon thirty five years ago, I noticed that the word belly was commonly used rather than tummy by most Devonians, along with phrases such as where's it to?
I too am Mummy to my adult daughters.I expect there are a few of us around!

Euphemisms can get you into trouble. I knew a little boy who used to say he needed to 'Go and think' when he needed to poop! In school the teachers were confused as was he when they told him to sit down at his desk and think!

Poos (our family word) were called 'big lots' by Mrs Bucket aka my mother.

For some reason my DGDs refer to bras as 'boobybras' not sure where else they imagine you would wear one!

Very true Penstemmon But better than "over shoulder boulder holders"

You've seen mine then phoenix

Humph! Medical is abdomen!

Hope you do not come across too many AAAs, Galen.
Abdomen always makes me think of insects, head, abdomen and thorax.

Re my previous post about a this rhyme my dad use to say!

"And the cow in the barn
Kicked Nellie in the belly.
But the old man said
It wouldn't do her any harm!"

I have found a version that appears to be a campfire song.
Isn't the internet wonderful!

odps.org/glossword/?a=term&d=5&t=34

I have puzzled over that ditty for about 60 yrs!

I shall sleep happily now!
Night Night!

Nellie is that a hymn, or an aria?! #website

I'm going to teach mg grandsons that one. Although the one who is a Scout probably knows it already.

You have to dance when you sing it

Well I call my belly 'tummy'
My grown daughters call me 'mummy'
For a wee I need a 'loo'
And a number two's a 'poo'.

Where I grew up in Leicester I think poos were referred to as bob bobs. I think my DD has said there is a similar term in South Yorkshire.

I had a fix catchup of Gransnet last night after a difficult day and the thought that Cari of the great HQ could take time to ponder on such an important subject really made my day. Thanks Cari for making me laugh.
and extra for you.

"stomach as in acid"

Too many cakes!!!

She would have been sitting cross-legged on her bed in her 'jamas, having a catch-up dustyangel.

This reminded me of a dire warning that used to hang on a peg in our 'bathroom' when I was little:

John and Mary thought they knew much better than their mummies.
They ate their tea with hands not washed
Now both have painful tummies.

No wonder I'm screwed up!