White laundry.

[Hedwig]

Enter woman carrying a large laundry hamper and asks her daughter:
D'you have any whites? I'm doing whites.

Above is a little scene from a television series I was watching tonight. Question: what would she ask if the clothes were colour? Would she refer to them as 'colours'?

[5jj]

I use 'non-whites' i don't know how common that is.

[Rover_KE]

At our house we say coloureds.

Rover

[BobK]

At our house we say coloureds.

Rover

Ours too. (That's two syllables: /`kʌləʣ/ )

b

[5jj]

I suspect that 'coloureds' is more common than my 'non-whites'.

[riquecohen]

I say "colors," which I believe is more common in the US. "Coloreds" is too reminiscent of an earlier time in our history.

[Hedwig]

Thank you all.

[Barb_D]

I say "darks."

I do a load of whites, a load of darks, a load of sheets, a load of towels, etc.

Probably because I don't use liquid bleach and because I don't have enough truly whites to do a load of whites, my "whites" include pinks, beiges, mint greens, khakis, etc. -- just not the dark reds, dark blues, etc. that might run and ruin your whites (which I guess are really "lights").

[Hedwig]

Thanks, Barb. Incidentally, I separate in the same way: sheets, towels, darks, and lights (not enough whites). And you get a star for the best laundry classification in the thread. :)