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Interestingly, the loo is a Water Closet.
by posterboy 4y ago
Interestingly, the loo is a Water Closet.
- OJFord 4y agoAre you correcting GP's 'bathroom'? Americans call the public facilities (e.g. in a restaurant) that or 'washroom', despite there (typically!) being no bathing or washing devices. Fwiw, like 'toilet', 'loo' can be either the room/facility or the... 'appliance' itself.
- Natsu 4y agoI think they mean that in French, they call the bathroom WC.
- OJFord 4y agoAre you joking? I've seen the abbreviation in France, de temps en temps, but never spelt out, it being obviously not French. WC is an English term.
- posterboy 4y agoNo, I meant etymologically. l'eau is apparently a real hypothesis for the loo. I shouldn't expect anyone to figure out word origin on the spot in a restaurant situation, especially if it's less likely than other hypotheses. But I encourage you to integrate etymology as a method in language learning and as its own effort.