On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 16:09:34 -0000, "Ophelia" >
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>"graham" wrote in message news >
>On 2018-01-29 8:31 AM, S Viemeister wrote:
>> On 1/29/2018 9:31 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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>>> I have never heard of that. We always called them 'towels'.
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>>> Have we ever called them 'diapers'?
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>> 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.
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>Ahh I see what you mean. Yes, in those days that is what happened, but did
>they actually call them, diapers?
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>If that were the case I am sure it would have filtered down.

Every family had their own terminology, and remember it's universal.
The first manufactured ones were called feminine napkins/nappies.