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.

So true. Also an outhouse does not have plumbing, just a hole in a bench type contraption. Thankfully, they are few and far between these days. Barns, etc. we call "outbuildings" in the US.

In Welsh it’s ty bach (little house) in south Wales and lle chwech (six place) in North Wales. I’ e no idea what the origin of the north Walian phrase is, if any Gogs on here do know please enlighten me.

My late in laws (Mancunians) called their utility room the outhouse.

Call them whatever you like. But be aware, like everything else an English person says, someone will judge you for it!

And some of the fancier ones do have similar set-ups.

School dinner ladies?

Shove up on the snobs bench.

I too hate all those words you've mentioned. Also "patio".

Yes we had school dinners. Lol

Every other place though, they're known as lunch ladies; also school lunch, lunch at school, school snacks.

Amused at quite how wide of the mark the “analysis” is.

Beat me to it! Wonder how many people have read it and been completely misled about the meaning.

Pudding is a big gooey delight with custard/ice cream/cream, dessert is a dainty and delicate mouthful.
Pudding all the way here!

Loo/Toilet ... I'm a toilet sayer - most of the kids I teach say toilet too. Loo sounds a bit frilly (a loo has a dolly toilet roll holder)

Loo for me. Sometimes, like Hyacinth, I might pop off to “powder my nose”.
If we stuck to these Non U rules, we would still be saying “looking glarse “

I recall reading a Sunday supplement newspaper many years ago.
The story I read gave the origin of the word 'loo'(allegedly) it went something like this...
At an English estate weekend house party(Edwardian era) all bedrooms had a card with the occupants name inserted into a brass holder on the door. i.e. Lord Toff or Lady Truffle. On this particular weekend, a certain Lady Louisa had annoyed the resident children so much that the children put her name card into the slot for that corridors lavatory/bathroom.
So all guests had to visit 'The Lady Louisa'. Which caused polite titters and rapidly caught on as 'The Loo'.

Maybe the story was run as a joke, I have no idea.
Any hoo, at home it is 'the loo', at friends house I ask for the bathroom and in public I look for the toilet.

And loo is OK, but it’s a child’s word isn’t it? Like wee and poo.

Is it? I think that kids are more likely to sat toilet than loo

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And I think the point is that it isn’t putting on faux airs by trying to be francais.

I've always understood loo to derive from, "Guardez l'eau" - shouted when emptying a chamber pot out of a window, warning passers by to watch out.

Although that's probably just another apocryphal story.

Yes.
Shampoo, soap...say what it is.

Isn’t loo from “ bordaloue(?) (?)spelling )
the gravy boat type urinals women used in the days of hooped dresses?Georgian era?

I say bathroom. The loo sounds too slang for me. My mum says loo or ‘spend a penny’. Toilet sounds too harsh.

Always say pudding, never dessert!

And after a few days out I'm thinking that would be ideal - if there were restrooms scattered around public venues,cities,train stations and if you had had enough you could ask for the restroom and have a nice sit down on a sofa with some magazines ( and ideally tea and biscuits as well 🙂)

Has anybody said WC yet?

@cariadlet seems more likely.

Bog hole and pudding
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