What do you call a person who pees?

[nq:1]A peeer?[/nq]
That's a ******.

John Dean
Oxford

[nq:1]A peeer?[/nq]
The natural English form would seem to be "peer," a homograph of "peer," meaning "an equal." Compare "seer" from "see" plus "-er." Several lists of homographs on the Internet do indeed have "peer" in the two senses in question, and in his book *The Language Instinct,* linguist Steven Pinker gives as an example of ambiguity in language the following headline: "Columnist Gets

[nq:2]A peeer?[/nq]
[nq:1]The natural English form would seem to be "peer," a homograph of "peer," meaning "an equal." Compare "seer" from "see" ... Pinker gives as an example of ambiguity in language the following headline: "Columnist Gets Urologist in Trouble with his Peers."[/nq]
Pretty good. A "seer" really is a person who sees (where do you find a good fortune teller? In the seers cat

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[nq:2]Pretty good. A "seer" really is a person who sees (where do youfind[/nq]
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[nq:2]good fortune teller? In the seers catalogue). But a "peer" ... I'm leaving now. Where is Meirman when you need him.[/nq]
[nq:1]I consider the situation to be very different, indeed. First, when you say that "'pee' is just a phonetic spelling ... an alternat

[nq:1]Subject: What do you call a person who pees?[/nq]
Incontinent?
A urinator?
When this sort of question is asked I am tempted to point to the Continent of Europe, just a sleeve's breadth away, where federal tendancies are starting to break down national boundaries.
Soon everything in-continent will be one great Euro-nation.

Cheers,
Daniel.
Taking the ***...

[nq:2]Subject: What do you call a person who pees?[/nq]
[nq:1]Incontinent?[/nq]
Incontinence, which I have due to 42 years of spasticity, isn't so much one who pees, but one who pees their pants. It relates more to loss of control. I wrote my first medical article on the subject and received 250 American dollars. The good old days.
Joanne

[nq:2]Incontinent?[/nq]
[nq:1]Incontinence, which I have due to 42 years of spasticity, isn't so muchone who pees, but one who pees their ... ofcontrol. I wrote my first medical article on the subject and received 250 American dollars. The good old days. Joanne[/nq]
That should be "related to one who pees".

A peeshooter?

[nq:1]A peeer?[/nq]
Further to the other replies (so far): if the need really arose I would write it as pee-er.
In EngEng the pronunciations of peer(n): equal, and peer(v): look, would be different from that of pee-er(n): one who pees.
"Pee-er" would retain the distinct "ee" sound, whereas "peer" would rhyme with "pier" and "ear".

Peter Duncanson
UK (posting from a.e.u)

[nq:2]A peeer?[/nq]
[nq:1]Further to the other replies (so far): if the need really arose I would write it as pee-er. In EngEng ... of pee-er(n): one who pees. "Pee-er" would retain the distinct "ee" sound, whereas "peer" would rhyme with "pier" and "ear".[/nq]
Yes - that's the joke and the conundrum. It should really be spelled with three e's in a row, but I've never seen that form, even