Anonymous wrote:OP, I am 41 and still call my 66-year-old father "Daddy." Does that bother you?

Not if you call him that, but if you refer to him as "Daddy" in conversation with others, yes. That's weird.

Anonymous wrote:Belly is not a kid word.

Perhaps. I think it depends on context. "Oooh, my belly is so full" or "I have a belly ache". Childish. THere are other uses that aren't, like a PP who mentioned belly dancing. But I'd say "tummy" is much more egregious.

Anonymous wrote:I'm drinking some yummy coffee w/ baileys right now and it's really warming my belly. This cookie is going to be soooooo yummy, too after I chomp it up and it hits my belly.

OP, are you seriously out of other more pressing things to worry about?

Can you read? That's the second line of the OP--that there are more pressing things to worry about.

I can't imagine calling belly dancing stomach dancing. It just doesn't sound right.

There's nothing childish about the word "belly." It's an Anglo-Saxon word, as opposed to "stomach," which has French/Latin origins. English is a particularly rich language because we have so many terms for which we can use either A/S and F/L words. The A/S words are often more concrete, more down to earth -- belly instead of stomach implies something earthy and digestive. That's what makes our writing richer.

This thread is delish! Let's all get nakie!

I use them just to annoy people like the OP.

I love to read random threads and learn how effective my strategy is.

Thank you, OP. You've made my day!

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Anonymous wrote:I never stopped saying poop.

Seriously. What are you supposed to say?

Honey, my feces is coming to a head in my colon, we better find a lavatory so I can defecate.

WTF.

I'm going to start saying this. I love to speak fancy and proper to my husband.

Anonymous wrote:I never stopped saying poop.

Seriously. What are you supposed to say?

Honey, my feces is coming to a head in my colon, we better find a lavatory so I can defecate.

WTF.

Belly is not a kid word.

I never stopped saying poop.

Because you and your ilk are not worth the time or mental energy required to come up with synonyms when a word that easily springs to mind because we use it the rest of the day with our children will suffice.

Do you have to go poo? Let's go find the potty.

-only said before age 9 and after you are a parent.

I use such words to repel people who act like old farts.

Huh. I use yummy pretty regularly. On the other hand, I HATE the word belly, it has always made my skin crawl. I don't know what it is about that word.