# Do the English "have" a shower? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 22, 2006, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-english-have-a-shower/353805 "2006-04-22T23:33:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Amaranta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Amaranta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amaranta)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2006, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-english-have-a-shower/353805/41 "2006-04-24T18:25:24Z")
> [@FlyingRamenMonster](#): > > Since your question has been answered can I hijack and ask if the English “do” sex? The protagonist from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time always said “doing” sex instead of _having_ it but I don’t know if it was just one of his idiosyncrasies or if people actually say that over there. I have heard this both from young children and people whose first language wasn’t English. I worked with a cook from the Phillipines who exclusively used the phrase “do the sex” instead of “have sex”. As in, “Yah, I heard they did the sex!” or “I bet those two will be the doing the sex later”. And I have or take a shower, and have/take/draw a bath. No one term is used more than the other. ---
**Author:** ![spingears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@spingears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spingears)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2006, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-english-have-a-shower/353805/42 "2006-04-24T21:47:40Z")
> [@FlyingRamenMonster](#): > > Since your question has been answered can I hijack and ask if the English “do” sex? The protagonist from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time always said “doing” sex instead of _having_ it but I don’t know if it was just one of his idiosyncrasies or if people actually say that over there. You can do as you please! We have a shower (stall) in our house and take/have a shower. We have a toilet or commode but NO bathroom since we do not have a tub to take/have a bath in. Never figured out how people got to saying “Going to the bathroom” in any and all situations where there were NO kind of showers or tubs present. Sloppy talk? ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-english-have-a-shower/353805/43 "2006-04-25T00:19:52Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > … > > BTW, interested to hear you flew from Blackbushe. I live less than a mile from that airfield. It’s a lot smaller than in its heyday, but still used by lots of private planes (including trainee pilots, who occasionally make the local headlines by landing on roads, roofs of buildings, other aircraft, and other inappropriate locations). The bus trip to London (as I recall) took over an hour. It seemed every house along the way had a flower garden in the front yard. The route didn’t travel along a major highway (I think), and we wound through two, three (or more) very quaint, very British towns, whose charm was well beyond anything I’ve ever seen since. I was entranced on every trip. This was 1953-54. WWII was just 7-8 years earlier, and yet the people were still much more innocent then, than they are now. But I’ll bet they’re just as loveable. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-english-have-a-shower/353805.md?page=2)