Re: Cloakroom

> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Mark J. Reed
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:34 PM, David McCann
> <david@...> wrote:
> > Note also the basin — a sink is found in  the kitchen.
>
> Hm.  While "basin" is not part of my native vocabulary, I always
> understood it to be synonymous with "sink".  Is there a difference
> between the two referents other than their locations?
There's also the geographic term, as in "L.A. Basin".