Does anyone really say "tummies"?

Drink tea from a mug so no little finger sticking out. Never used a doily. Never call children kiddies. Don't like 'hubby' or 'the wife' . Never go to a lido, go up the pool.

bags

feetle I have to agree with you re "hubby"

I drink tea from a mug and I don't stick any fingers out...
Never used a doily in my life!

I say tummy as in tummyache to grownups and children. I do not drink tea or eat belly pork.

'Tummy' is the sort of euphemism you hear from people who drink tea with a little finger stuck out, and whose 'kiddies have crumpled the doilies' in Betjeman's poem. And while we are at it, one that always puts my teeth on edge is 'hubby'...

I believe belly dancing/tummy dancing/abdomen dancing is gaining in popularity too

In the highly unlikely event of one of the more refined gransnetters executing a less than perfect dive into her local lido (leedo, liedo?), would she refer to it as a tummyflop, a stomachflop, or an abdomenflop?

Nothing to do with snootiness, as for old English , we no longer call an illegitimate child a bastard or a base child, we no longer say we are having a piss, all acceptable at one time and all old English .

Phoenix 'tummy pork'

I remember when DD, then 15, woke up with an extremely painful neck which was badly twisted on one side. She was never ill and ad only ever been to the doctor once but was crying with pain, so off we went. He looked her solemnly and said 'Well, we don't often see you do we? My dear, you have torticollis'. She looked very worried, and I thought for a second and said 'but that's just Latin for twisted neck'. 'Yes, I know' was the answer,'but it sounds much better described like that'.

Galen I suspect that you as a doctor and I as a nurse are in the minority by saying abdomen!

how sweet marelli
This reminds me of the U and non-U stuff that Nancy Mitford wrote about. Really posh people probably say bellies. Aspiring posh thought it a shocking word?
Does anyone really say "I have a pain in my abdomen" ?

Would it be "sair toomy"?

The bairns roond ma way tell their mummies, 'Ah've got a sair belly, Maw'....('sair tummy' doesn't have the same ring to it, really)!

phoenix, I know, really

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...

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.

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)

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

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

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

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

Tummyache or stomachache.

FTB – full to busting

TTT – tummy touching table

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

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