TOILET / UNITAZ

[nataliek at UALBERTA.CA]

Very quick addition to the discussion - in Canada it is washroom.  You  
do not call it a bathroom.  Toilet is also rarely used.  It took me a  
while to switch from bathroom to washroom when I moved from the US to  
Canada.

Quoting "Vera Beljakova" <atacama at GLOBAL.CO.ZA>:

> It is "toilet" or "lavatory" - 'closet' is very old fashioned.
> Lavatory is very Engllish.
> Toilet is a more recent loan word from French.
> "Water closet" is even more old fashioned.
>
> Everything else is only a euphamism, so I have never understood
> 'restroom' or 'bathroom', except rooms where one has a litle lie-down
> or bathes.
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Natalie Kononenko
Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography
University of Alberta
Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E6
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