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Benedict Arnold

Is there any word that adequately describes a lavatory without resorting to being cute?

In the US  they're called bathrooms or johns. (Indeed, Richard Ianelli in his Devil's New Dictionary described a demijohn as being "Half a bathroom."
In England it's the loo, or the lav, or the khazi.
In Australia we go to the dunny.
Bears just go in the forest.
What is it called in your neck of the woods?

Posted - February 22, 2017
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  • Dear Lucia,

    Where then, if I may ask, might be your neck of the woods? Isn't boghouse British origin, are you in Britain?
      February 23, 2017 9:57 AM MST
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  • I am English and in Britain,  yes.  
      February 23, 2017 10:13 AM MST
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  • 9894
    Anything but 'Little Girls' Room' or 'Little Boys' Room'; I cringe when I hear that.   And BTW, Didge, the answer to 'do bears poop in the woods?' is 'not if they are polar bears'.
      February 23, 2017 5:02 AM MST
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  • 'Rest room' .. what kind of ridiculous misnomer is that!
      February 23, 2017 5:10 AM MST
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  • 9894
    No worse than cloakroom. I had to ask for a translation on that one.
      February 23, 2017 6:27 AM MST
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  • That's unarguable! I never thought of polar bears. :D 
      February 23, 2017 8:59 AM MST
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  • 739
    Where I come from in the North of England, (though I live down south these days) we call it the bog.
      February 28, 2017 8:44 AM MST
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