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Mind your language

Does ‘tummy’ turn your stomach?

2 November 2024

9:00 AM

2 November 2024

9:00 AM

‘How old does he think you are?’ asked my husband when I told him my GP had asked me if there was any pain in my tummy. Such infantilising language has already made poo the normal way of talking about excrement.

Now it’s tummy. Last week the manager of Arsenal admitted that choosing a team sometimes gives him a ‘bit of tummy ache’.

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