What Do They Call The Bathroom In England
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What do they call the bathroom in england. If you mean a room where people take a bath or a shower they call it a bathroom. There would have been plenty of other places to go to the bathroom. What does your research show clark.
A bathroom is a bathroom in ireland. However if you say bathroom and you mean a room with no bath or shower but just a toilet and a hand basin. Why do americans refer to the bathroom when it lacks a bath.
Barrie england dec 20 13 at 11 08. A family bathroom in british estate agentterminology is a full bathroom not attached to a bedroom but with its door opening onto a corridor. We may call it a loo because when people used to empty their chamber pots out of the window they would shout guard de lou meaning watch out below.
Do they bathe in the bowl. If there is a toilet in the room but no bath then it is. Lavatory means wash room and is a euphemism loo from the french for l eau water and is essentially a room with water a euphemism.
A jack and jill bathroom or connected bathroom is situated between and usually shared by the occupants of two separate bedrooms. What you are referring to is that some people called the place where you have a toilet the bathroom. What worries me is that virginia only contained one bathroom back then.
What do they call a bathroom in england. Tim lymington dec 20 13 at 12 40. In britain we call the bathrooms in our homes the bathroom but the lavatory in the bathroom is often called the loo which is a euphemism for lavatory we often have a loo in the hall downstairs for use if the one in the bathroom is occupied.
Kristina lopez dec 20 13 at 14 26. However if you say bathroom and you mean a room with no bath or. Were common euphemisms then coming after crapper became tainted.
If you mean a room where people take a bath or a shower they call it a bathroom. Wc or water closet a room provided with a water source then applied to the actual apparatus. The usual term on signs etc.
Conversationally they are referred to as. It s the loo not lou and it refers specifically to the lavatory itself.
