Do you run or draw a bath?

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Legitimate-Habit4920@reddit

Ive never heard anyone say 'draw a bath' in my life.

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spoo4brains@reddit

Gen-X here, I don't think I have ever heard the term draw a bath used outside of period dramas.

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prustage@reddit

I say "run", but now you have reminded me of "draw" I'm going to be saying that from now on. "Draw" is clearly an endangered word and I think we should take every effort to prevent it going extinct.

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Neddlings55@reddit

Water runs from a tap. Draw comes from when people drew water from wells manually. I would say run a bath as draw is quite old fashioned.

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peppermint_aero@reddit

I think "draw" comes from the Latin trahire, meaning "to drag"? I may be remembering this wrong

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It comes from the germanic side of our language history, not our latin. Latin would be more like trago/traho, you can see it in modern words like "tractor" or "extract". Theres some discussion on whether they share a PIE ancestor, although i understand thats not necessarily a given.

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peppermint_aero@reddit

Thanks!

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Used-Ad9589@reddit

And you don't use a well presumably? Haha, bang on

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philipwhiuk@reddit

Look at this guy with his non-well water source

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Used-Ad9589@reddit

I have a toilet in my house too, I know living the life haha

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Greatgrowler@reddit

Whilst I agree with your answer, we do often use words from older methods for describing a more modern action. When did you last use a proper dial to dial a number?

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tcpukl@reddit

Run a bath. Draw the curtains.

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Expensive_Time_7367@reddit

My first response was “of course I run a bath, what am I, a Victorian?” And that kind of explains why.

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box-o-locks@reddit

You also don't 'take a shit', you leave it behind. The English language is odd.

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sockeyejo@reddit

I don't leave it behind when I'm hiking. Far easier to carry it in sealed bags until I get to a bin than carry a shovel and spend ages digging a deep enough hole far enough away from a water source. But then I'm clean and tidy like that.

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LegolasleChat@reddit

Its like 'Blow Job', confusing as nobody is using blow as a technique.

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Bubbly-Tumbleweed316@reddit

Suck job

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mrbullettuk@reddit

I knew a girl once. Said the first time she did a blow job she though why is is called a blow job and well tried blowing. She didn’t do it again.

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box-o-locks@reddit

I always assumed it was called that because it made you blow your load.

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Sburns85@reddit

Pretty sure there are people who do it as a job

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JizzProductionUnit@reddit

Speak for yourself

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limboxd@reddit

There is something poetic in that 1st sentence

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DoctorRaulDuke@reddit

I run myself a bath and if I've done it for someone else I will say "I've drawn you a bath".

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TSC-99@reddit

Run. Who the fuck says draw?

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pencilrain99@reddit

Hoy the bath on

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CoffeeIgnoramus@reddit

"Draw" is not meaning colouring. The draw something is to pull something from somewhere or attract something. Hence the word "Drawer" for those sliding things in your kitchen. Or to draw the attention of someone... "Run" is to make something work, you run machinery, you run the code, you run through a process. Not just the physical exercise. Anyway, in answer to your question, I say "run".

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terryjuicelawson@reddit

Water runs though, like "running water" right. I think "draw" comes from when we had wells which is definitely outdated.

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No-Snow-9605@reddit

Running is a lot quicker, drawing is way too slow,plus I always drop the pencil /s

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ThinkBiscuit@reddit

I run a bath. Maybe if I had to use a mater pump to fill it, then I’d draw it.

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ZaphodG@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/1d47dlpafn3h1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0647532e6ca82901a3355a7a1db8fddd1ac49e09 This is how I draw a bath

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JedsBike@reddit

I run a bath, but maybe we should all be ‘filling a bath?’

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Used-Ad9589@reddit

Well we run the tap, so it's acceptable. It means where we get the water source, so drawing a bath would be filling it from a well

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_oOo_iIi_@reddit

You can draw it from the tap. Draw is 'remove'.

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Used-Ad9589@reddit

In water terms it's filling a container and lifting it labour, but sure

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philipwhiuk@reddit

Don’t fill it. When you get in it’ll overflow

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Dd_8630@reddit

Neither; I *have* a bath.

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Lessarocks@reddit

Run. I suspect it originates from leaving the tap running. Drawing a bath is something I associate, rightly or wrongly, with the upper classes.

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turtle5538@reddit

Run a bath Sauce: common sense

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Charly_030@reddit

I usually stroll it

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Ill-Imagination4359@reddit

no I have a shower

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Critical-Lettuce-503@reddit

Fill

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testdasi@reddit

Uhm... "take a bath" anyone? Never heard of "run" or "draw" a bath until today. Shower FTW. 😅

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the01li3@reddit

I mean the water is running so that makes sense. I guess you draw water from the pipes?

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lankymjc@reddit

It could be both if we remember words can have multiple meanings. You can leave something running, meanig leaving it active. A program, a fridge, *a tap*. Pretty clear case of the word meaning what it normally means. You can draw something out of something else. A canny general can draw the enemy out of their fortifications and into a trap, a nurse can draw blood from your arm, and water can be drawn from a tap.

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badgerandcheese@reddit

I draw a bath using pen and paper. Though the paper always ends up wet.

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Stormkiller72@reddit

I run the tap to draw a bath

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Active_Definition_57@reddit

Run.

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WeDoingThisAgainRWe@reddit

Run a bath. I don’t live in a place where you have to draw the water (out of a well or whatever) to fill the bath. So it wouldn’t make sense to say it.

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--BMO--@reddit

I run a bath and draw a beard on my face with the bubbles

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Sburns85@reddit

This is the way

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Icy_Knowledge5004@reddit

This is the way

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Impossible-Shine-439@reddit

I'm curious now, is it a desire to have a beard?

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Winston_Carbuncle@reddit

It's a local bye law

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flavouredicecubes@reddit

In the future I'll tell the servants in my historic house to draw a bath, but I currently live in a terraced house so for now I'll just run a bath

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PiskieW@reddit

Neither, we only have a shower-room

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Fun_Gas_7777@reddit

Ive never heard the term "draw a bath" before in my life. 38yo

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WhaleMeatFantasy@reddit

It’s nice though.

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swiftcardine@reddit

I can honestly say I have never heard anyone ever say draw a bath. In my 30 years on this planet

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RufusBowland@reddit

I've heard it on American TV shows, so I'm wondering if it's more a t'other side of The Pond saying?

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Competitive_Cap2411@reddit

I am scared of bath taps so it’s always a shower for me

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Embarrassed_Park2212@reddit

I like to use both. Just because I can. I can't do either anymore though now, I have to use a shower. How I miss a long soak in a hot bath.

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TheViscountRang@reddit

Run a bath, draw the curtains

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J_Thompson82@reddit

I run the curtains and draw the bath. Have I been doing it wrong this whole time?

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AndrewHinds67@reddit

I've never heard of drawing a bath. I mostly just have a shower.

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sshipway@reddit

You run a bath; unless you're using a bucket from a pump or well rather than a tap.

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evenstevens280@reddit

I suppose that's where the term "Draw a bath" originally came from.

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Beautiful-Purple-536@reddit

This makes sense. Drawing water relies on suction or lifting force, running water on positive pressure or gravity.

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SpudFire@reddit

I say run. Drawing a bath sounds a bit Downton Abbey to me

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talligan@reddit

I fill the bath

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RaiLau@reddit

Run a bath. I’m from Yorkshire.

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evenstevens280@reddit

Draw a bath. I'm also from Yorkshire

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MiniRollsYum@reddit

I feel that draw would be lingo you'd expect in a Downton Abbey ep

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eekamouse4@reddit

🏃 🏃‍♀️ 🏃‍♂️

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garfartkle@reddit

But the water runs from the tap to the bath.

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Used-Ad9589@reddit

EXACTLY

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Arielcinderellaauror@reddit

Draw the blinds/curtains and then run the tap for the bath.

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Used-Ad9589@reddit

Run, no longer have wells to DRAW water from at home typically

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Specific-Sundae2530@reddit

Run. I think drawing probably comes from when people needed to pump water or get it from a well.

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KaylinT01@reddit

Neither because mr stink

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Rechamber@reddit

Run

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rabid-fox@reddit

We say both in Scotland i say run personally

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