Spanglish Word Of The Day - Washateria
Washateria: This has to be one of the best words I've heard, because it's even been introduced into the maintstream. Drive by a laundry mat in Oak Cliff or East Dallas and it says: Washateria.
Oh my god, that's awesome.
posted by Daily Texican at 11:33 AM
17 Comments:
It's an awful term, it sounds so ignorant. In any event,
it's not Spanglish. For information about the term see http://www.austinchronicle.com/mrpants/laundry.html
4:16 PM
also, it's spelled "washeteria"
and it is not "Spanglish"
10:40 PM
If it is Spanglish, so be it. I grew up in Texas and have used the word all my life. I was surprised when my spell checker flagged the word with no options. Hell, It's written on buildings here in Houston!
5:29 AM
there's a Washateria in the movie Rushmore
11:42 AM
What is a Washateria?
4:36 PM
I grew up in East Texas and never saw a spanish person, we always said "washateria" I never heard laundromat used until I went to college in San Antonio
12:46 PM
There's a Washateria on Gov't Street in Baton Rouge. I was recently in Chicago and mentioned it, and got pilloried. F'kin' yanks.
10:47 AM
I never heard of this term until I moved to Houston for school and looked for a laundromat since the one at my apartment complex was too costly.
2:24 PM
I am from SW Oklahoma and have never heard this word until last week at work in the DFW area. Must be a Texas thing.
...Do you know why Oklahoma is so windy?...Because texas SUCKS!!!
10:20 PM
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1:49 PM
that's not spanglish. i've seen washaterias all over southern louisiana since i was a child. (back then, there was virtually no hispanic population in that part of the country)
8:09 PM
You know why Texas doesn't fall off in the gulf..because oklahoma sucks.
7:41 AM
Wow
8:11 AM
I have grown up in deep south texas..you know 1 mile from the river in the Rio Grande Valley and I had never heard that word until we visited Houston and San Antonio. I began seeing it everywhere and I read it as the splanglish word that it is..first I thought it was pretty funny and then I started seeing it everywhere!! I thoughtm, is this an actual franchise of laundrymats named washaterias!! Genius!! white people always fall for those generic mexican restaurants..why not a cliche spanglish type laundrymat?! Right??!! :)
11:00 PM
it's a nice blog and thanks share with us, washateria
9:46 PM
Its a Texas word not spanglish sorry its like cafe-etiria : wash-atiria. beginning laundymat was a type of coin operated machine that became the name,like calling any soda a Coke.
10:00 PM
It is not Spanglish It was created by Noah Quinton Brennan who said :
"for two years I studied and drew blue prints for a set-up of that sort; reaching my conclusion in 1936 I opened my place and called Brannen Wash-A-teria; later having the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company to register the name with the governement, in order that the newly made name might be listed in the phone book"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-service_laundry
9:47 PM
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