So what do you call yours, Toilet, Loo, etc etc ( lighthearted post )

It was always the 'bog' when I was at school - again another Grammar School ... my Dad always used the 'khazi'.

If am out and need to go I ask to use the facilities generally, but for me it's usually the 'loo'

Just realise that if I have to ask in public places - restaurants, other people's offices etc - I still say 'the ladies'. In other people's houses the cloakroom, or bathroom.

Mrs Fats.....it's a long story but my sister, who is 8 years older than me, invented a story to encourage me to get to the toilet before it was too late! My husband still goes to visit Mrs Fats occasionally!

If my granddaughters are here we have a 'make sure' before we go out

I must have used "loo" when my DC were little,because DGS always says loo, even though English is not his first language. I don't know what he used to say when he lived in America, where he attended a pre-school run by Indian ladies (Asian Indian, not North American Indian).

I find I usually say 'toilet' these days. Not that the subject comes up much, except of course when out with DGC.

As a mischievous student back in the 1970s, a few of us played a practical joke on a local estate agent who was known in the area as being less than helpful to Freshers looking for accommodation to start their first year at University.
We toured the town looking for any of the Company’s ‘To Let’ boards outside properties and promptly added the extra letter using a marker pen to make the sign read ‘Toilet’!

There were lots of phrases used to avoid saying the word in the past.

A lady would go and powder her nose. I remember one of grandads friends used to say he was off to point percy at the porcelain. I remember asking the grown ups what that meant. They used to go and see a man about a dog which also confused me as a small child.

I think the "The restroom" as used in America always amused me simply because I thought it was a somewhat coy way of describing a facility that is there to serve specific bodily functions, maybe if there were a sofa or two in such places they would justify that description, but you still need the loos there as well of course

At home we call it the toilet. Well that's what it is and I don't really like the word loo. In a public place would use the term ladies/gents.

At secondary school I think every one called it the bog.

I remember visiting my grandparents who lived in terrace housing with toilets in the yard. Every one there called it the lavvy but mum and grandma told us children to call it the WC.

Pretty much loo all the time. Lavatory when I was young. I do remember the boys at junior school calling it "the bog" which seemed to produce snorts of laughter the same way "bottom" did for my children, when they were aged between about 3 and 5

On a visit to George Washington’s home, Mt. Vernon, we were amused to see the outside loos were called ‘the Necessaries’.

My sister always calls it "George" as in "I'm going to see George".

DDiL's Dad (long retired) used to say he was just going to visit the office.

DH calls it toilets (pl). I say loo or occasionally "the facilities".

My mother's guiding rule with etiquette was "what does our dear queen do?
In Buckingham Palace it is the lavatory. (apparently)

If there was women present it was the bathroom.
If it was just men, it was the khazi or the bog.

An old word up here in the NE is ‘netty’. It could simply be a version of necessary or from nettoyer, French for to cleanse.

My father called it the throne room. He was certainly fond of sitting on his throne, with the paper. Often too long in a house with 6 of us and only one loo, or lavatory as we called it then. I hate that word - too many memories of a chilly separate loo with hard Bronco paper.
It’s always the loo now.

TrendyNannie6

Yes and thinking about it my uncle used to call it the khazi many moons ago

He sang a song there with no words and no tune while he sussed out -all- those moons? How many lazy Sundays did that take?

I was just going to say 'the heads', lemongrove but you beat me to it!
The loo. Sometimes the lavatory
It was the bog at my school too (a naice girls'grammar school)

Like most people now, I say loo.When at senior school it was called the bog ( delicately reared grammar school girls )?
At home when a child it was the toilet.
Many servicemen fathers would say the heads.Common people ( according to older relatives) said lav?

Loo, occasionally toilet. I like to ring the changes.

In Canada we always call it the bathroom, even if there is no bath or shower. The toilet is the actual object.

In a public place such as stadium or restaurant you might ask for the restroom.

My granny called it the Cludgie. It was down the tenement stairs and out the back.

Loo.
In someone else’s house I might ask where the bathroom is.
Hate it when it is called the bathroom eg in offices where there clearly is no bath.

Loo or toilet for me.
Lavatory casts me back to public toilets of childhood days. Wooden seats, floors often wet and smelly and izal paper soggy on the floor puddles.
Also the penny coin operated lock on the door. Holding the door open on the way out of the cubicle so the next person in the queue wouldn’t have to pay a penny, then being scolded by the attendant for doing so.

Here I am broken hearted,
paid a penny and only farted ?

Because you get to have a sit down?

Loo. Why is it also called the restroom?