NationStates Jolt Archive


More spellings

Randomea
06-03-2005, 05:33
It's one of these obsessions of mine: using obsolete words.
Any fellow gaol users out there?
Wong Cock
06-03-2005, 05:47
Board of Directors

Government
Neo-Anarchists
06-03-2005, 05:49
How do you spell that place criminals get locked up in?
You mean my closet?
North American
06-03-2005, 05:49
Prison. Gaol? C'mon.....
CthulhuFhtagn
06-03-2005, 05:50
Ordinarily I use jail, but if I'm writing I might use gaol at some point or another.
Kreitzmoorland
06-03-2005, 05:53
joint, brig....there must be more
Alenaland
06-03-2005, 06:39
Hoosegow; the Big House; Correction Facility; the Slammer...
Alien Born
06-03-2005, 07:23
bastille, big house, bridewell, brig, bucket, calaboose, can, carcel, chokey, clink, college, cooler, coop, freezer, guardroom, hoosegow, jug, keep, lockup, pen, penitentiary, pokey, prison, reformatory, rock pile, skookum-house, slammer, stir, stockade

Searched for Jail. Gaol is not listed as it is an alternative spelling not a synonym or something like that.
I tend to use gaol, but I am old school British
Potaria
06-03-2005, 07:25
Jail, usually.
Jeruselem
06-03-2005, 07:37
Jail, gaol is similar to goal which I use a lot in soccer RPs.