Do you go to the toilet?

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MIL (very pretentious) is horrified if anyone says "toilet". But can't suggest a better word to use.
My mum thinks toilet is the 'educated' word, and 'loo' (for example) shocking slang.

What do you call it? what should we teach our children to call it?

i say - im going for a wee!

Nope I head to the bog for a Bruce myself

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"Toilet" "loo" "p*ss" "wee" "no.2" "bog" depending on who I'm with, how drunk I am or whether the kids are in ear shot

DDs either need a string or a parcel.

QoQ: which do you use to the kids?

I suppose lavatory is the posh word, or 'wc'.
But I say bog-house meself.

"going to do a wee" or "going to the toilet" (usually) or "going to the loo"

Need a pee, off to the loo ..... Don't honestly think it matters in this day & age. Its a bit Nancy Mitford to be getting your knickers in a twist about frightful middle class words like "toilet"!!!!!

My mum, like your MIL, thinks 'toilet' is very infra dig. Have always called it the loo.
Funnily enough, my mother's take on this is that toilet was originally pretentious - people attempting to sound posh by adopting a French word. Like saying serviette instead of napkin.

tarantula, what's a 'Bruce'??? I can only think of Willis or Forsyth.
Oh - just got it!!!!!!!!
I like to say 'going for an eartha'.

posh people say 'loo' the rest of us say 'toilet'. I've dallied with 'bog', 'going for a slash', 'need a tiddle' etc.

The theory is a lot of words with french origins were introduced to Britain during the industrial revolution. Newly rich industrialists would by the new top of the range french stuff - settees, perfumes, mirrors, serviettes etc - but the old money aristos already had sofas, scent, looking glasses and napkins. So if you really want to sound posh you use the old words, hence loo and not toilet.

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I kinda got into the habit of saying bathroom, after many embarrassing moments in the States where I would ask someone where the toilets were...

My mum insists it's 'lavatory' but I stopped saying it when I left home because no-one else says it. However, it still grates to say 'toilet' as she has instilled the predjudice in me. 'Loo' sounds twee, 'bog' sounds smelly.

Lav' or lavvy is a good compromise.

I still don't gt the bruce thing - someone enlighten me?

Bruce Lee - pee

Its all dp's fault. Im a nice Irish girl myself

I say loo, dp says toilet, kids say both. I correct them though . Hate the word toilet.

Desperate Housewife says:

"posh people say 'loo' the rest of us say 'toilet'"

I know what you mean, but I think it's only the aspirationally posh who give a damn about it (i.e. really want to be posh but don't quite cut it)

I use loo, toilet, bog etc interchangeably

Sorry, not being pointed about you Cha! . Noticed that your post is directly below mine.

I was brought up to shudder at "toilet" too (and dh still does, but then he insists that our one big room is the "drawing-room", which I think is a weeny bit aspirational).

Ds and dd use "toilet" happily - because that's what everyone says at school, and I am so glad that means they're free of those horrid class-antennae.

Been replaced by frets over connotation antennae though - should they call female adults "ladies" or "women"?