Words That Hold No Water

From urine the English made urinal; the French were no less practical. From "pisser" they made pissoir, a noun a feature in many a mensroom found. The overly refined and prudish, of course, consider the French incorrigibly coarse. The only proper verb they indicate to use when one has to pee is urinate, and not that English monosyllable lopped off from its French original. And, therefore, men, at nature’s call enjoy the use of a pissoir or urinal. And only a stickler will stop to quibble which to use when pressed to piddle.