OT:Heard on American Dad: daughter Hayley singing a song about...

[Bill Palmer]

when I lived in California, everyone used "lavatory".

Bill Palmer

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>> I was taught "WC" In my first semester of French at University of
>> Iowa. I would never have said "Salle de bains."...
>
> Just like in my first or second year of high school German, i learned
> that the words for that room are 'Toilette' and 'WC' [ve.tse]. (I
> didn't learn 'Klo' until i lived in Germany.) These things are in the
> most basic of tourist survival phrasebooks, too--there's really no
> excuse for saying 'Badezimmer' for such a room (though there is a room
> by that name--it contains a shower or tub, and may or may not include
> a toilet).
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>> I have noticed than many speakers in the upper midwest emulate
>> Canadians and say "washroom" even when their primary goal is not to
>> wash up.
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> Not just midwesterners (my Southern Maryland self uses 'washroom'),
> and not just emulating Canadians (i was raised to use the term by my
> Southern Maryland mother, who found 'bathroom' indelicate, if not
> utterly inappropriate for polite company).
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> David Bowie
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