[Niamh.]

I always thought it was dishwater but I've seen alot of people on here say ditchwater. Which is it?

[Maia]

I've never heard anyone say ditchwater

[Samuel.]

Dishwater, surely.

[Roy Mars III]

Ditchwater is the correct saying

[Lee.]

Ditchwater

[Niamh.]

[Benjamin]

Dishwater.

[Kate!]

It is literally ditchwater, but I always say dishwater

[Roy Mars III]

We say ditchwater in America

[Niamh.]

Now I'm even more confused

[Lee.]

It's definitely ditchwater but over time people have mis-pronounced it as dishwater. I think both are used now, but it was originally ditchwater

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Lee.

It's definitely ditchwater but over time people have mis-pronounced it as dishwater. I think both are used now, but it was originally ditchwater

Dishwater makes more sense

[Roy Mars III]

I was just joking around, I've always heard and used dishwater

[Brother Leon]

Fishwater

[Omah]

Ditchwater

Used in a critique of 1870

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothair_(novel)

Lothair (1870) was the first novel written by Benjamin Disraeli after his first term as Prime Minister. It deals with the comparative merits of the Catholic and Anglican churches as heirs of Judaism, and with the topical question of Italian unification.

The Quarterly Review called Disraeli's production:

A book which he calls a novel, but which is after all a political pamphlet, and a bid for the bigoted voices of Exeter Hall… It sins alike against good taste and justice…That there are happy thoughts and epigrammatic sentences sown broadcast in its pages need scarcely be said of a novel written by Mr. Disraeli. But as the true pearl lies embedded in the loose fibre of a mollusc, so Mr. Disraeli's gems of speech and thought are hidden in a vast maze of verbiage which can seldom be called English, and very frequently is downright nonsense…So far as feeling is concerned Lothair is as dull as ditch-water and as flat as a flounder.

[Benjamin]

I think either is can be used since both forms of water found in both are pretty dull.

[Pyramid*]

I've heard both phrases used - it could be a regional thing perhaps.

[Jules2]

Originally Posted by Roy Mars III

We say ditchwater in America

always been ditchwater to me, think about it dishwater can be bubbly and clean.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Jules2

always been ditchwater to me, think about it dishwater can be bubbly and clean.

Not after you wash dirty dishes in it

[Roy Mars III]

Originally Posted by Jules2

always been ditchwater to me, think about it dishwater can be bubbly and clean.

what's ditchwater?

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Roy Mars III

what's ditchwater?

Ditches are long trenches or holes that are often found on the sides of highways, roadways etc. A ditch usually contains water (that's primarily why people dig ditches) and the water in it is usually dirty and dark as a result. [/Google]

[Roy Mars III]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Ditches are long trenches or holes that are often found on the sides of highways, roadways etc. A ditch usually contains water (that's primarily why people dig ditches) and the water in it is usually dirty and dark as a result. [/Google]

Oh, it's just water from a ditch.

For me

[Lee.]

Originally Posted by Roy Mars III

what's ditchwater?

Water that sits in a ditch... if you don't know what a ditch is, its like a trench or a dyke

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Roy Mars III

Oh, it's just water from a ditch.

For me

[Josy]

Dishwater