On Feb 14, 11:54 pm, "Noddy" <m...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "John_H" <john4...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > My own mother would've winced had he said toilet (it's an
> > Americanism). OTOH the old man would've denied ever calling it the
> > ****house (which he always did) in her presence.
>
> Oddly, I've never heard a Yank refer to the dunny as the "toilet". It's
> always been "bathroom" whenever I've heard a septic need to go.
>
> > The problem being it's a literal translation of 'dunnekin' (dung
> > house), from which the word 'dunny' is derived (a relatively recent
> > addition to our own language AFAIK). All very lower class (in the old
> > girl's estimation)... lavatory was the only acceptable term. :)
>
> The "Lav" used to be common when I was a kid, but then so were
****-carter's
> hats
I know folk who refer to the dunnies at work as "the bathroom" - where
in
hell is the bath?!? I'll strip ****d and relax in it if it had one.
Lav, loo I don't tend to associate with. Toilet yes.
I pick various "American" terms as they are more descriptive.
Calling an apartment a unit I find totally bizarre. A unit, you
live in a unit? a unit of what SI or imperial spec? Does not make
sense.
As I also mentioned USA have terms I don't like, however
there are a few that make better sense than ours. Even if they can't
spell :-)
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