To ask for a national campaign to stop adults referring to their "tummy"

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Still absolutely fine to talk to children about tummies

But adults need to know that it is never ever ever ever ever ok to say "my tummy hurts"

Ever, ok?

Tummy is awful.

Belly is only acceptable when referring to a delicious piece of pork.

And can I add to the mix the phrase 'my mummy friends' when used in adult conversations by a 40 year old woman.

Oh I know, I have to do sickness forms with grown adults who say "severe tummy ache" or "severe belly ache" and I always say "ok ill note stomach ache" 🙄

It's in the Oxford Dictionary. That's good enough for me!

Yet you start a weird thread on the word tummy! 🙄

Stay well clear of Lancashire then.

Hijacking to change one consonant. Riding on the back of this, please can we have a national campaign to stop grown adult men using the word 'mummy'. I have two male friends who do this and every time I hear it, I want to slap them around the chops with a wet fish.

It's an abdominoplasty.

I think this is probably why we say tummy?! We don't know what part hurts exactly - somewhere internal between our chest and pubic bone! Maybe our intestines? Possibly our stomach? Maybe even our ovaries?

Just dropping in to offer you all ‘tumkin’.

You’re welcome!

You can't... stomach the word stomach..?

Tum lover here, also use poorly.

I had a midwife who clearly agreed with you, she was always saying things like "I'm just going to listen for baby in your stomach" or "let's just measure your stomach to see if baby's growing nicely"

Tumbly egg is our go to word for pain in the lower area beneath the sternum but above the public bone.

I fail to see your issue

But that's so anatomically incorrect lol! Unless you've eaten your baby.

Upthread the definition for tummy is "stomach or abdomen"

So tummy ache is more accurate for abdominal pain than stomach ache.

Etymology of "tummy" is irrelevant, it has come to mean abdomen

Tummy is no worse than using "stomach" to refer to all or any part of the abdomen.

In fact, tummy is much better.

"I've got a poorly tummy" works for indigestion, period pain, the raging shits, food poisoning and any other abdominal ailment you can think of.

A’ve got an affa sair tummy tum tum today. Fit div yi suggest min?

"I've got a poorly tummy" works for indigestion, period pain, the raging shits, food poisoning and any other abdominal ailment you can think of.

@PatricksMother maybe I'm alone in this, but someone saying that isn't vague and a=can mean many things to me. If someone tells me they have a 'poorly tummy' I 100% think they have dihhoreaha

I think I default to midriff because stomach is a specific thing within the midriff. Can’t bring myself to say tummy or belly. Guts is unnecessarily uncouth. Abdomen is unnecessarily clinical. However if I’m just home alone with DH I’ll announce loudly and dramatically that my bowels hurt (if, indeed, they do). Oh how we laugh!

Oh also no, adults saying ‘poorly’ is awful too.

Could be worse 'on the boob'

It's gut.

As in "pain in the gut", "greedy guts", "beer gut" etc.

I'm with you, OP...
I was recently trying to buy a swimming costume, and in NEXT (and other sites) EVERY SINGLE ONE of them, no matter how small a size, had "Tummy control".
I was annoyed by how "sexy" most were and how even a slim woman is required to look even more sleek, but worse was the constant use of the twee and childish "Tummy". Made me want to throw my phone across the room.

I still don't have a new swimsuit.

But you wouldn’t extend your ban to adult women who say ‘mummy’?

Does she also go to the hospiccal, and drink from Boccles,whilst wearing her Sangals

Yes! Can I add the words “yucky” and “yummy”? Unless you’re talking to a toddler.