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

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.

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

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.

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’!

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.

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

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.

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'

We call it the loo. Lavatory when I was a child, at home and school.

At our age now, suddenly rushing out of a room, there is no need to announce where we are going. It is also the only time we move anywhere with speed. ?

The toilet.

Toilet or weight watchers if we have guests as i don`t like people to know where i`m off to.
Daft eh ?.

Weight Watchers? Won’t they think it’s a bit odd that you’re off to a meeting while they’re visiting?

I do sometimes say I’m paying a call.

I have invented a new name for mine and have been calling it the "toilette" for some time. I am in England but it sounds quite French to call it toilette.
When I am in my daughters house I say to the GC I must pop into the toilette they call their mum and say "Nannie can't talk properly."
It's all fun and eases my boredom.

For some strange reason we called it George when I was at boarding school.

Our 7 year old grand daughter is still excited about the time we had our bathroom decorated, and often says “Do you remember the time when we had to go down the shed and pee in a bucket?”
Otherwise we all go to the toilet.

When I was at school ( 50s) it was the bog.My grans’ toilets down the end of the garden, the lav. Now it is the loo.

Wasn't allowed to say toilet when was a child, had to be lavatory, now ask for loo at friends, and ask for ladies in shops or restaurants.

Same as grannysyb.

Like grannysyb, the word toilet was forbidden. Lavatory at home, lavs at school (also quite nice girls’ grammar) but once I started work at the BBC the approved word was loo - and it still is. I still can’t abide the word toilet, which probably says more about me than is helpful.

A lady I used to work with back in the '70's used to say "I'm just going to see if me hat's on straight"
I call it the loo or the bog.

Sharon- I love that!
I say loo or toilet, maybe ladies when out and about.
Like others, I find that lavatory has nasty connotations.
I was at school in the 80s and it was bogs then too.
It seems to have spanned the generations. I'm pretty certain that the kids at my school say bogs too.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJG_qmYL_4M

I think the majority say "Lavatory"
OoRoo

Loo for us but the gc say "need the toilet" usually at the last minute! Mr manc says just going for a Jimmy (riddle). 4 year old usually says bathroom but the other day told his parents "I'm going for a Jimmy like grandpop"!

Nearly always loo. Sometimes I say I am just going for a wee. No one here ever says, ‘lavatory’ I don’t think they know that word.

Toilet or loo.
We would never have been allowed to say "bog".
I might start saying it now, just because I can!
(Sorry Mum)