To think toilet sounds better than loo?

[Mabelthebore]

& dessert sounds nicer than pudding? I know some people look down on those who say toilet and dessert but I actually think they sound nicer. I think loo in particular is a horrible word.

Lol it's breakfast, lunch and dinner here too. Couldn't quite hold onto the dinner and tea for afternoon and night.

Tea is a drink. Dinner is night food.

Do those who object to the word toilet hate the word toiletries too?

I don't like 'loo'. For some reason it just sounds so twee. But I'm not much better in that I often refer to it as the 'bathroom'. I think it came from when I was living in the states but apparently now they call it a 'restroom' which is even more obscure.
Pudding and dessert are both fine, I don't really notice the difference.

Oh! Do you not call them looeries?

Loo and pudding are both posher, apparently. I think I had it from Debrett’s.

That’s what Dad used to say!
😂
Kids really can deliberately irritating just to annoy their long suffering parents.

Looeries! 🤣

That’s brilliant- might have to borrow that.

I'm American and we avoid the word "toilet" at all costs, unless on the hopefully rare occasions when we need to refer to the actual receptacle, as in "DH, can you come help me. The toilet is stopped up." We say bathroom, whether or not there is a bathtub in the room, or restroom if in a commercial location. Also in a commercial location, we might say "ladies' room or men's room."

As for pudding, in the US, that is a specific type of dessert, usually a custard-based concoction such as banana pudding, which is a sort of trifle, so dessert is the general word.

I don’t mind either I know what is meant

same with pudding/desert

i will use all

but do not like the word bog or worse bogo 🙄

I think ‘loo’ is so twee and childish, it makes me cringe

Prefer shitter.

I agree. I say toilet to foreigners or they stand there with their face scrunched up and say at the top of their voice: “ What did you say you need Madam? You need the WHAT?! The LOO??” Yep … now you all know. I feel like yelling back : “ Yes everybody: my bladder is currently engorged with urine!!”
But in uk it’s always loo. 🇬🇧🚽

An American friend was puzzled when I said I loved exploring old outhouses as a child ( meaning barns and stables-
To her an outhouse is a bathroom.

Apologies if someone has already mentioned this and I've missed it, but this thread reminds me of the Betjeman poem 'How to get on in society'.

https://allpoetry.com/How-To-Get-On-In-Society

It was written in 1958 ... however, the one thing in it which is still applicable is how not to pronounce the word 'scone'.

Restroom conjures up to me a room with a sofa and some magazines on a table.

Bogo??
Sounds Australian?!
Never heard of Bogo in U.K. before.

🤣

How about Water Closet?

I had a teacher who really gave you what for if you asked to use the lavatory - a lavatory is a place for washing.

Yes.
And 'lavatory' is just a Latinate 'washroom'.

I was curious on a recent trip to Switzerland why loos in Europe are quite often labelled 'W.C' - why does this archaic British abbreviation persist? However, the fact it does and is understood leads me to think our polyglot neighbours aren't in the least fazed by us using the word 'loo'.

Exactly. They don’t even seem to taste right if they’re not skons!

Brilliant

YABU about loo. It's a much nicer sounding word than toilet, but YANBU about dessert instead of pudding (unless it is a type of pudding that is the dessert!)