Is this a middle class saying?

Bog is definitely not middle class! I was always taught that bog was a horrible way to describe toilet… and I grew up in a middle class family.

If you even think that about someone who seems posh then you have a weird opinion of people- also is middle class posh?! Im probably lower/ middle class, and I’d look at people that are similar to the royal family and think ‘whoah they’re posh!’

I've never heard anyone say "Do you want bog?"
Bog is not middle class and even amongst the working class, it's not often used anymore.

Nancy Mitford wrote the U and Non U lists as a bit of a light newspaper column in the beginning but it proved to be very popular. The Non U words were often French in derivation - hence Toilet and Serviette. Why she had a downer on French words I don’t know. She lived in France for much of the latter half of her life.

Bog is 100% not posh. Bog is what a hairy arsed builder would say.

Everyone i know says toilet unless it's very informal when they might 'pop to the loo'. WC background but have friends and colleagues from all walks of life. I've never heard anyone say lavatory and only the very rough kids at school said 'bog' and got told off for it by the teachers.

Loo sounds the most MC to me, especially if you nip there.
Bog I've not heard since school, in a rough part of East London.

I'd have thought "do you need a shit or do you need a piss"
Would clearly indicate lower class, however anything else is acceptable for most people.

I loathe the word toilet

I grew up with 'going to the bog' and I was very working class. I think sometimes wc and posh have crossovers in language and also don't bother defending the boundaries as much as mc people perhaps do.

Bog is most definitely "common". Nothing wrong with toilet. Blimey lol. Maybe it's said differently for different parts on the country lol. 🚽 😊

Posh is different, it's muddy, freezing leaking country pile, labradors everywhere (whose names you can't differentiate from the children's nicknames) , and will say absolutely anything without a second thought. Almost the antithesis of MC

I think so, but it’s just odd to say it to a small child like that. Are you quite sure that’s what she said and that’s where they went?

I think the polite term is "Dump station"

Oh well you're all totally the opposite of posh - us poshies say Aunty Mabel's Donut in the Greenhouse. (Snooty face emoji)

John Benjaman wrote a brilliant poem about it called How To Get On In Society:

Phone for the fish knives, Norman
As cook is a little unnerved;
You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes
And I must have things daintily served.

Are the requisites all in the toilet?
The frills round the cutlets can wait
Till the girl has replenished the cruets
And switched on the logs in the grate.

It's ever so close in the lounge dear,
But the vestibule's comfy for tea
And Howard is riding on horseback
So do come and take some with me

Now here is a fork for your pastries
And do use the couch for your feet;
I know that I wanted to ask you-
Is trifle sufficient for sweet?

Milk and then just as it comes dear?
I'm afraid the preserve's full of stones;
Beg pardon, I'm soiling the doileys
With afternoon tea-cakes and scones.

It's a horrible expression imho, regardless of 'class'.

Same, although I say to my toddler "do you need the toilet" all the time in public, I had no idea I was being so uncouth!

I still have a working class accent although I live in a veeeeery middle class town and am probably technically "middle class" myself (in the sense of career, house, postgrad education etc) now. I'll say loo from now on 😆 in fact it reminds me of when I had a summer job when I was 20yrs old enrolling people onto adult evening classes and I pronounced Pilates to rhyme with pie-plates...

I had an aunt by marriage who was the Honourable Lady Something and grew up in what is literally a National Trust property. She routinely employed the foulest language but always used the term "water closet" for the smallest room.

I was taught that "bog" is a terribly vulgar word and I was raised on a council estate.

I haven't seen or heard Bog for many years. In our family, it's a word reserved for the particularly gross loos we were forced to use at secondary school.

My mum’s pretty old and says lavatory. It’s outdated. I think I usually say loo. Bog was what we used at school 70’s and 80’s and I imagine teachers expected us to say toilet. What a minefield !

@Corgiowner 😂I’ve not seen that poem before. I’m left wondering what’s wrong with some of the phrases though.

'Do you want bog' sounds horrid and very uncouth. Ugh!

My granny used to say (in cut-glass tones) 'Does anyone need to spend a penny?'

Crapper.

I've always called it the bog. I'd never say "going bog", though, it would be "going to the bog". It was used at my (independent girls' grammar) school, so it might be posh, but it was also widely used on the dead rough Croydon council where I grew up.

I sometimes use "khazi", and occasionally "lavvy", but that started out as a pisstake of a friend's Scottish granny.

I hate the word "loo", it sounds really twee and mimsy to my ear. And it's widely used among the ILs, who are totally working class but with pretensions of gentility (think "serviettes", doilies and sandwiches with the crusts cut off).