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Janet

In article >, says...
>
> On 2018-01-29 8:31 AM, S Viemeister wrote:
> > On 1/29/2018 9:31 AM, Ophelia wrote:
> >
> >> I have never heard of that. We always called them 'towels'.
> >>
> >> Have we ever called them 'diapers'?
> >>
> > I've never heard sanitary towels called diapers.
> AIUI, STs were invented during WW1 by nurses near the front.
> My father told me that in our grandmothers' time, before STs became
> widely available and cheap enough, women washed their diapers every month.

Rags weren't called diapers. Your father used the wrong word.

Janet