Mon-27-10-2014, 16:17 PM
(Mon-27-10-2014, 13:15 PM)Fred Wrote:(Mon-27-10-2014, 10:43 AM)Caroline Wrote: Btw the belly is below the stomach, am I right Fred?
[fred.]No it's a big thing you can rest you beer on, our do Belly Bumps on small framed people sending them flying across the room.
[/fred.]
The Belly is a term for the lump with your belly button, if we say we have belly ache technically we mean stomach ache.
The Stomach is the round sack located inside the belly where we digest our food, before sending it off to our intestines.
The intestines is all the tubing that takes the digested food down to the escape hatch.
We also sometimes use the word Guts to mean the belly, the stomach, or the intestines.
So although Cheryl said Stomach she is using it as a term of feeling uncomfortable in that area, but maybe not specifically the stomach or the belly or the intestines.
It's a British thing, we know what she means.
Jim has tried with "Abdominal Cramps" but if one got diarrhoea for example then we would probably say. My Guts hurt, My Belly Hurts, My Stomach Hurts, or We've got the Squits.
Hope that helps.
It helps a little yes.
But for me there are only two things. The stomach, where food gets mixed to get it ready for digesting and the intestines, where the food is really digested and where the necessary energy, vitamines, and other stuff, is transferred to our body.
I mean the last part. That is the part where DMF can be a bit inconvenient.