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Nitpick pile on: Bath (capital B) is a place. A bath is optionally an abbreviation of bath-tub, or some sort of past tense conjugation of bathe 'I had a bath' t
by anotherhue 6y ago
Nitpick pile on: Bath (capital B) is a place. A bath is optionally an abbreviation of bath-tub, or some sort of past tense conjugation of bathe 'I had a bath' that I am insufficiently skilled in grammer to identify.
"I had a bath in Bath" is ambiguous as to whether you previously owned a person sized water container, or made use of the city's famous roman bathing facilities.
- adolph 6y agoBaths can be had and also taken. Unfortunately “I took a bath in Bath.” is triply ambiguous in that it might mean that you stole plumbing, that you cleaned yourself via water immersion or that you lost a significant amount of money.
- AuthorizedCust 6y agoWithout further context, people will gravitate towards the commonly used meaning, so it would typically be interpreted as “cleaned yourself via water immersion”.
- LudwigNagasena 6y agoPast tense and past participle of bathe is bathed.