CommonFreddy Woo writes, "My wife thinks calling the front room a lounge is common. Worse, a friend of hers recently admonished her daughter for calling a toilet, a toilet. Lavatory darling. It's lavatory."
My own mother refused to let me use the word 'oblong' instead of 'rectangle'. Which is just odd, to be honest.
What stuff do you think is common?
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chthonic, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:06)
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It very definitely does matterif you defecate or urinate in a Toilet or a Lavatory.
The Lavatory has always been the facility itself, the Toilet simply a handbasin. These were, on trains at least, traditionally in separate rooms across the corridor from one another.
Around the 1860s when they were trying to squeeze more people onto trains someone decided to combine both Lavatory and Toilet into a single room. Unfortunately two signs on the door would have been confusing to the lower classes- so they settled on a single sign stating simply "Toilet". And the name stuck.
So it's really important that you don't defecate in your own toilet!
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uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 16:14,
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IF!!!If we lived in the 1860's that might be true. If you told someone the toilet was the handbasin and they used it as suggested, i reckon you'd be pretty upset with the result!
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