To: devane617
I don't have a problem with Restroom. If I ever went to America I'd be sure to buy a dictionary so I knew what the essential words translated to. Toilet is a French word. In England we prefer loo (also a French derivative) or bog (I think very Anglo-Saxon)
4 posted on
07/24/2005 11:56:37 AM PDT by
pau1f0rd
(Still more majestic shalt thou rise, More dreadful from each foreign stroke.)
To: pau1f0rd
5 posted on
07/24/2005 11:58:46 AM PDT by
devane617
To: pau1f0rd; hellinahandcart; general_re; aculeus; Petronski; Constitution Day; Tijeras_Slim; ...
Toilet is a French word.Toilette, in one sense “the act or process of dressing,” generally not far advanced in The Toilet of Venus.
13 posted on
07/24/2005 12:17:50 PM PDT by
dighton
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