to think loo paper is what it's called

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AIBU to think asking a 5 year old to say toilet tissue is a horrible genteelism?

It's loo paper, and you flush it down a loo.

Also, has anyone else noticed how dusty it is?

Tissue paper??!?

I say toilet or loo roll.

I also say pardon

I have learnt from this thread that this makes me common. I had no idea about the poshness scale🤷...here is my something new learnt today 😏

Good communication on this tissue issue is vital.

Mrs Richards: "There's no paper in my room. Why don't you check these things?"
Polly: "We don't put it in the rooms, we keep it in the lounge."
Mrs Richards: "In the lounge?!"
Polly: "I'll get you some. Do you want plain ones, or ones with our address on it? And how many sheets?"

Mummyoflittledragon that’s funny, I have never thought of that connection!! I say tissue paper but I write it on the shopping list as T. rolls (tissue rolls) Think my mind must be broken. Never going to think the same again! 😀

My first response was “ who even uses the T word, how common”. It’s laughable that someone thinks it’s posh to call it toilet tissue!!

Toilet roll, sometimes bog roll

no one who posts on mumsnet is posh
why pretend you are?!

My first response was “ who even uses the T word, how common”.

You know what they say about people who use the word 'common'...

I agree that staff should not impose their own terms when kids still learning. But did they really say “toilet tissue” and not “toilet paper”? To me “tissue” is what the ads/packets say, but “paper” is what is used in conversation.

Toilet vs loo- I can imagine a school saying that children must say “Please Miss, may I go to the toilet?” rather than “Please Miss, may I go to the loo?” To me “loo” is a bit more chatty/conversational so perhaps it’s just a register thing?

So ‘toilet’ is a class marker, eh? Wikipedia is telling me that it denotes the aspiring middle classes, versus the upper class. What about the working class?

We say toilet roll or toilet paper. In our delusion we were of course hoping that members of the upper classes passing by our council house to hear cries of “We’re out of toilet paper!” would thereby determine what a good sort we are. We’ll obviously have to start shouting ‘loo roll’ or we’ll never be invited over. I shall update DH on the approved word list at once.

Toilet paper or toilet roll actually- would use them interchangeably.

living long
Yes it is. I say loo. But I fail on the “tea” front. I used to call it this with dd as she had it early and wanted a selection of cold premade / pre cooked items but now i say dinner as it is later and often warm.

So long as you know what is meant, who cares? What sort of judgemental, silly person makes a fuss about what someone else calls something made to wipe your bum with (or blow your nose with, if necessary...)?

Pinkbells
I find tissue rolls just as odd. For me that’s rolled up tissues from a box. Am I just too literal?

I have never used the word loo. I have a personal dislike for 'bog' but I'm shocked at the snobbery on this thread.

So Agatha you agree that bog standard loo roll is dusty? I definitely do. Not the lovely quilted stuff though .

Loo roll in my house. X

Oh dear. The people who are suggesting lavatory is worse than toilet are really betraying their class! It's a misunderstanding that lavatory is a "pretentious word". It isn't. It's an old and direct word.

Lavatory + lav + loo = both OK/ U/ upper class.
Toilet = lower class/ non-U

www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2016/01/toilet-or-lavatory-how-words-britons-use-betray-our-national-obsession-class

In her essay on “Social Solecisms” (1907), Lady Agnes Grove lamented the middle-class use of words such as reception, couch, serviette (instead of the “honest napkin”), and expressions including going up to town (meaning London) and inviting people for the weekend.

"Seven Deadly Sins” which will immediately reveal you as a member of the middle class, or resident of “Pardonia”: pardon, toilet, serviette, dinner (to refer to the midday meal), settee, lounge, sweet (instead of pudding).

I find all of this fascinating. Nowhere other than mumsnet have I experienced people so against the word toilet. I would have never imagined it could be so offensive!

Loo roll here. Occasionally bog roll, depending on my mood.

And since a PP has already mentioned wet wipes, I hereby throw in my most favourite phrase in the world :

MOIST TOWELETTE. (I find myself unsure now whether it's two Ls or one, but I'll go with one)

So delightfully twee. And has the added bonus of making 90% of the population squirm at the use of the word MOIST.

We call it toilet paper at home but for some reason while shopping my husband never fails to bellow out, "Do we need any arse wipe"?

Weirdly in our house we use "the loo" - but buy toilet roll!

I've never realised that before.

We do though eat Supper/dinner and never tea.....

Toilet tissue at 5??!!

Poor child

Toilet roll here.

Pinkyy, I'm not surprised at the snobbery, it's pretty bog standard on these type of threads, if you'll pardon the pun!