Talk:go potty

RFD discussion: October 2016
go pee, go number one and go number two have been deleted per https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Talk:go_number_two. time to delete this as well.
 * Keep. Idiomatic. It's actually akin to go to the bathroom. PseudoSkull (talk) 00:10, 13 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep I think?! You can "go potty" but you can't "go toilet" or "go the gent's" or "go facilities". It might need a childish gloss. Equinox ◑ 00:41, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
 * @User:Equinox It already has a childish gloss. PseudoSkull (talk) 00:55, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I think very young children say "Go bed!", "Go walk!", "Go wee wee!" and numerous others. I think "go potty" is just one example of this kind of simplified speech, not an idiomatic expression in its own right. Mihia (talk) 03:41, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, but "go potty" is used by people old enough that they no longer say "go bed" or "go walk". Keep. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 08:44, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
 * OK, I didn't know that. I assumed from the "childish" label that it was meant as something said by young children. Mihia (talk) 09:47, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
 * It is, but not exclusively. It's also used by adults when they're being playfully childish. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 13:35, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
 * And aside from that, it's such a common expression that, even if it's ever so slightly SOP, go + potty, it should still be deemed by us at Wiktionary as idiomatic. PseudoSkull (talk) 15:23, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
 * The omission of "to the" makes this idiomatic. You don't go a place (go bedroom, go car) and it's not a process like pee or poop. Keep Renard Migrant (talk) 16:58, 13 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep. Of course. Renard Migrant's argument is particularly persuasive. ---&#62; Tooironic (talk) 23:27, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
 * On the basis of this, which shows no measurable hits in BrE (possibly why I have never heard of it, other than as generic baby-speak), perhaps it needs a "US" label. I'm assuming that the phrase "need to go potty" will near enough eliminate interference from the other meaning. Mihia (talk) 00:35, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
 * No, I've never heard this in the UK. Renard Migrant (talk) 19:56, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep: per Equinox Pur ple back pack 89  01:14, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
 * RFD kept per consensus. --Dan Polansky (talk) 16:13, 21 October 2016 (UTC)