Do you go to the toilet?

[SoftFroggie]

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?

Lavie or Cludgie but if being polite loo.

Can't say "toilet", remember someone at school getting yelled at for saying it..Have to confess to going all American and saying "bathroom" as I probably sound stuck-up to most people and don't want to make it worse by saying lavatory or loo.

Baffled by Americans aversion to "toilet", "loo" etc. Was at a kids' museum in Philadelphia and heard somebody screeching "you wanna go pipi? you wanna go potty?" and couldn't see how that was less "offensive" TBH.

dh horrified when anyone says "toilet". "loo" just about acceptable but he says "lavatory" (terrific snob )

Is loo slang then? I didnt think it was.

It's a 'bathroom' or a 'ladies' room', peeps, and NO it doesn't matter if there's a bath in it !

Well DH calls it "the facilities" thus completely removing all associations with bodily functions, he's worse than the Americans.

As a child I went to an American-based International school for a while and learnt to call it "the bathroom". Then at the house of some of my parent's English friends I asked where the "bathroom" was and got an odd look and directions to the room containing the bath and sink. Had to go quietly searching for the room with the toilet in. So that cured me of that.

Since potty-training dd I have a tendency to announce that I'm going for a wee-wee and then realise that the adults I'm with didn't want to know that.

well it's better than announcing you want to have a poo, fruitful - or have you done that, too?

toilet or loo. If I'm drunk I go for a slash!!

Certainly not. I go to the loo or the wee-wee house.

I do have mirrors though.

I say toilet and loo. To my ds1 I say 'loo loo' which is appalling and should be stopped immediately!

I go to "powder my nose", or "freshen up". I do not go to the toilet...ever.

I've picked up "wee wee! wee wee!" whilst doing the wee wee dance from my friend's DS....

People tend to stare in restaurants!

i say loo

I'm sure I've read somewhere that the term 'loo' is terribly upper class.

no way, loo is not posh. I picked that word up from kids at primary school.

after so much talking to non-native English speakers, I now use toilet, because it seems to be understood across Europe.

SoftFroggie, must admit, Id be tempted to say Toilet with enormous relish in front of the easily shocked MIL, and teach my children to as well!

I say toilet mostly but find myself saying loo if talking to people who I think are posher than me, so they won't think i'm common.

how pathetic is that?

Bathroom, ladies room, w.c

toilet here as well sometimes bathroom

DP announces hes away for a tom tit! (only in my compnay though)

really don't understand the objection to the word toilet - most public conveniences are signposted as Toilets - surely it's the most obvious word to use these days?

i say im going for a wee if round fgriends and family!

but in other peoples houses i say 'do you mind if i use your loo/toilet/'

CP - has any one ever said they do mind?

bog at home

"laydees" if am asking where they are