Re: [YAEUT] Lexical variation survey

IML the "toilet" is the thing you sit on (a.ka. the "commode", which
I've always considered a coarser word), not the room it's in, which is
the bathroom or - when there's no bath, as in public facilities - the
restroom.  Even when there's a door between the bath and the toilet,
IME, it's on the order of a closet door - not enough to warrant
consideration as a separate room.



On 5/4/08, Tristan McLeay <conlang@...> wrote:
> li_sasxsek@NUTTER.NET wrote:
> >> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of R A Brown
> >
> >>> 19. the toilet facilities in a public place: bathroom,
> >>> facilities, ladies' room / men's room, lavatory, loo, restroom,
> >>> toilet,
> >> washroom,
> >>> WC, john
> >> Informal: 'loo' or 'bog' (depending on company); formal: 'lavatory'
> >> or 'toilet' facetious: "little boy's room"
> >>
> >> Like most Brits, I have this quaint notion that a bathroom actually
> >> has a bath in it   ;)
> >
> > So I'm guessing you don't have real estate ads listing houses with
> > "2.5 baths" (the half is just a toilet and sink) like we do.
>
> In most (newer) Australian houses/units the toilet is a separate room
> usually next to the bathroom and/or laundry. It rarely has a sink in it.
> Houses with toilets in the bathroom usually predate internal toilets,
> although extensions sometimes change that --- at home, the downstairs
> toilet is a room inside the downstairs bathroom because the kitchen was
> extended at one point before we moved in.
>
> I think most ads show a picture of a bath with a number next to it to
> indicate the number of bathrooms --- the number of toilets will always
> be equal to or greater than that, and the text description will say.
>
> --
> Tristan.
>
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