Toilet or Loo?

[ILoveAfternoonTea]

Do you refer to the toilet/loo as the toilet or the loo?

My DP says that "toilet" is common. If I say toilet I get pulled up on it. IL's also say loo and I feel I have to watch what I say

It just seems strange as if you're in a shopping centre or restaurant the sign always says toilets, never ever loos

Fed up of being corrected

Thunder box. Or if you’re posh throne room.
My ex used say he was going to shake hands with Nelson.

Boggycrapper

I say ‘loo’, and if at a restaurant, would ask where the bathrooms are. I’m a Kiwi.

Toilet just sounds a bit down-market.

I went to a girl’s grammar school where they insisted we say lavatory! I would just ask to use the facilities

Girls’ !

@sandgrown

I went to a girl’s grammar school where they insisted we say lavatory! I would just ask to use the facilities

Lavatory is correct (and absolutely nothing to do with a grammar school ).

My mother used to say, "I'm going to the Houses of Parliament"; I used to know a nun who said, "I'm going where the Queen goes alone".

I say, "Lavatory" if I have to say anything, or just, "Excuse me". At school, when I was small, we were asked to put up our hands and say, "Please may I be excused". At my last school, the lavatories were known as, "The ablutions", for some reason which is just as bad as 'bathroom'.

Please excuse me for a few minutes, I am off the euphemism.

‘Toilet’ was a forbidden word when I was a kid, ditto ‘lounge’.

We had to say ‘lavatory’ which I always hated - connotations of freezing cold and hard Bronco paper with that distinctive smell - a whiff of that would instantly take me back many decades.

Always ‘loo’ now. I don’t wince at toilet any more but I still don’t really like it. Might use it if I have to ask where it is in a restaurant, but will also say the ‘ladies’.

My DF used to say, ‘I am going to commune with my soul’ when he was off for a ‘sit’ with the paper. 😂

Never thought of it before but at home or in any domestic situation I say loo. However, if I am out I am looking for a toilet.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER Sun 11-Apr-21 08:18:25
‘Toilet’ was a forbidden word when I was a kid, ditto ‘lounge’.
We had to say ‘lavatory’ which I always hated - connotations of freezing cold and hard Bronco paper with that distinctive smell - a whiff of that would instantly take me back many decades.
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'Lavatory' is correct though, whatever the word conjours up for us. Your parents were right, also about 'lounge' which should be 'sitting room' or 'living room'. 'Lounge' smacks of hotels, pubs and three piece suites.

Hee hee, aren't we snobbish? I bet we always say, "What?", and never, "Pardon?".
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Whilst communing with his soul, did your dad contemplate his naval?

Loo.

But I'll ask for directions to the ladies or toilets (which I know is incorrect, but it's easily understood).

Cannot stand big,shutter,crapper or piss, slash, crap etc.