It's faded out of use. My grandmother even had a joke about someone asking about a WC and getting a description of the local wesleyan chapel. Here's a version,

It's faded out of use. My grandmother even had a joke about someone asking about a WC and getting a description of the local wesleyan chapel. Here's a version, but I don't think my grandmother's relied on foreign language as a device: http://www.brinkmanonline.com/humor/church/wc.html http://www.brinkmanonline.com/humor/church/wc.html