Euphemisms in English Everyday Discourse Eufemismy V anglickém jazykovém prostředí

faeces
and 
urine
, 
and the issue has not been addressed, Ang Tshering told reporters.”
(The 
Guardian, 2015) 
However, there is a medical term that is not of Latin origin but it is also 
used primarily in technical articles or in the medical realm. When speaking with 
physician about your health they might ask questions using the euphemism - 
stool
. 
This expression is neutral without any colouring, but still too formal to use it in an 
everyday discourse.
“We are moving into a new era where we can actually use molecular methods to 
detect with much more sensitivity the pathogens in 
stools
.”
(Davis, 2016) 

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The example below shows another euphemistic alternative for human 
secretion. The term is of Latin origin, which makes the word sound more 
sophisticated. The meaning of the expression is neutral and formal. This is a 
reason why it is often used in press, but rarely in spoken language.
“The walls were smeared with human
 excrement 
and about 15 dirty nappies were 
strewn on the bare floor alongside dirty plastic drinking cups.” 
(BBC, 2017) 
Since the words of foreign origin sound advanced and high-level it is 
popular to use them as euphemisms, because they evade direct naming and at the 
same time they refer to the tabooed objects with elegance. Such euphemistic 
alternative can be seen in the example below, in which the word – 
biosolids
fulfil 
its function as an erudite euphemism. However, 
waste 
is an English euphemistic 
substitution that refers not only to human but also animal excrements, mainly 
dog’s ones. The expression is not as technical as the others in examples above, but 
it is still considered formal and neutral and thus one can see it in newspapers or in 
some public notice.
“In the future the potential of this waste could be unlocked by farmers fertilising 
their land with