The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #166291   Message #3997111
Posted By: Backwoodsman
20-Jun-19 - 04:15 AM
Thread Name: BS: Language question, not a peeve
Subject: RE: BS: Language question, not a peeve
Nobody in the UK calls the toilet the ‘bathroom’ - nobody. Especially in the case of public toilets, it’s sounds - and actually is - prudish-sounding and ridiculous.

For us, it’s ‘the toilet’, or ‘the loo’, or one of several other epithets.