To wonder why nursery can't say 'poo'?

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They say 'bowel movement', which is of course a more technically correct name, but come on, just say poo! We're talking about small kids here, not grown-ups unlike me

I say your child did a right stinker today

insancerre I'm from Newcastle and hasn't heard the word "tail" used for penis until about 10 years ago, and only from one person, in Yorkshire. I've never heard anyone else use it before or since (thankfully ).

carabos I lived on wearside for several years and heard it a lot there.
I had never heard it before or since apart from one lady who was from the NE and I have lived in Norfolk, Bucks, North Yorks, County Durham and Lancs.
I just assumed it was a NE thing

Tubbs (The League of Gentlemen) used to say Tails and No-Tails for men and women.

I've never heard the 'tails' thing before- very odd!

I realised my 7yo didn't know what 'willy' meant the other day, when she read out a joke, but didn't get it... we use penis and vulva for their body parts.

Well, we've just ended up using a mix of words. Nunu (sp?) was the polite Zulu slang I was taught when I was little, and that was for boys and girls, so that is what DD calls it. However, she does 'poefies' in her nappies (Afrikaans for, yes, poos) and calls farts 'poepies'. Heavens knows what she'll end up calling them here in England.

One of the Afrik options for 'willy' is apparently 'totterman', which I think is so utterly hilarious DS will probably learn that one from me... I have also heard it being called a 'slurpie', which is a little [elephant] trunk.

My Mum's family all say tail instead of willy or whatever. They are all from Derbyshire. I've just asked my Dad, who's from Norfolk what his family called them and he very primly said they called them their privates.