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Michael R N Dolbear

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On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:06:19 +0000, Philip wrote:

I realise that others like to complicate matters more than we do
here in
Yorkshire, but let's be clear: It's a bloody toilet.

But that word is a euphemism. Who was it who joked about bathing his
brow with toilet water when the seat fell onto his head ?

Why not just say bog ?

/All/ of them are euphemisms, really, and in fact mostly concerned with
/wash/ like the US usage of bathroom as a euphemism that this
subsubthread stated with.

latrine, toilet, can, convenience, head, john, johnny, lavatory, loo,
privy, water closet

****house is perhaps the only term that isn't.

(also, basement, commode, donnicker, little boy's room, men's room,
rest room, washroom)

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Mike D