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- word choice - Toilet, lavatory or loo for polite society . . .
Both lavatory and loo are fine, and it's meaningless to talk about which is correct or more correct, IMHO Interestingly, these terms are quite strong class indicators in the UK: loo is more often used by middle class speakers than, for instance, toilet When I was young, I once mortified my parents by asking a family friend if I could use
- Is it really rude to use the terms the john and the loo in lieu of . . .
"Loo" is not at all rude in British English; it's not even particularly informal In American English, "toilet" refers nearly always to the piece of furniture and not the room that contains it It would feel weird to say "I'm going to the cooker" instead of "I'm going to the kitchen"; "I'm going to the toilet" is kind of the same, with the
- Can the word loo mean bathroom (with bath and shower and all)
In this situation, the loo is the thing you sit on in the bathroom (I know what you're thinking I think it's disgusting, too, and I was raised in Britain ) A larger house might have a second toilet in its own room In this situation, the loo is both the room, and the thing that you sit on So there's a loo in the bathroom, and a loo in the loo
- Right tol loor rul! Meaning - Dickens, Dombey and Son
Right too ro loo ra loo ra loo, right too ro loo ra loo ra loo, right too loo ra lay In the scene from Dombey and Son quoted in the posted question, Mr Chick seems to be invoking a chorus from a popular (and comic) music-hall song at a rather inopportune time I imagine that most of Dickens's English readers in 1846–1848 would have been
- Washroom, restroom, bathroom, lavatory, toilet or toilet room
loo - from the French for l'eau (water) and is essentially a room with water, a euphemism WC or water closet - a room provided with a water source, then applied to the actual apparatus bathroom - a room with a bath in the whole world except North America where it now doesn't need a bath and is used as a euphemism so that Americans don't have
- Reason for different pronunciations of lieutenant
'Lieutenant' comes from French lieu ('place') and tenant ('holding') Some sources claim that 'lieutenant' had alternative spellings such as leftenant, leftenaunt, lieftenant, lieftenaunt etc , and that the ModE pronunciation with f (BrE mostly) is a holdover from those spellings
- British term for washroom? [duplicate] - English Language Usage . . .
Lavatory, loo and toilet will all be understood, which is in many cases the only real desideratum However, which word to use (as well as proper employment of slang like bog and khazi , which though informal are far from entirely proletarian) will have a major impact on how you are perceived, and the etiquette is far too complex to summarize in
- What French phrase is the origin of gardyloo?
The word gardyloo is a warning cry uttered before throwing wastewater (literally and euphemistically) out of a window Every source I've found has traced this word back to some French phrase transl
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