Bathroom In British

Laurence is a british expat living in indianapolis indiana.
Bathroom in british. In my youth linguistic conservatives decried the word toilet as an americanism for what was called in britain the lavatory. I was the mean english teacher who made my kids ask to use the lavatory or bathroom instead of the toilet i know it s said but i don t like it. Loo british informal washroom.
The bathrooms specifically toilets with seats and hand dryers were another example of inappropriate technology. From the cambridge english corpus. Because the institution did not have a bathroom she had to take children to a public bathhouse nearby for a bath every month.
A room without a bathtub or shower is more often known as a wc an abbreviation for water closet or loo. Can us canadian slang john slang mainly us canadian head s nautical slang shower. Lavatory is itself a euphemism for the place where one defecates.
Other terms are also used some as part of a regional dialect. From the cambridge english corpus. In british english bathroom is a common term but is typically reserved for private rooms primarily used for bathing.
They took a break so he could go to the toilet.