2014年2月21日 · "Loo" is not at all rude in British English; it's not even particularly informal. In American English, "toilet" refers nearly always to the piece of furniture and not the room that contains it. It would feel weird to say "I'm going to the cooker" instead of "I'm going to the kitchen"; "I'm going to the toilet" is kind of the same, with the ...

2011年8月8日 · Both lavatory and loo are fine, and it's meaningless to talk about which is correct or more correct, IMHO. Interestingly, these terms are quite strong class indicators in the UK: loo is more often used by middle class speakers than, for instance, toilet. When I was young, I once mortified my parents by asking a family friend if I could use ...

2013年10月3日 · In this situation, the loo is the thing you sit on in the bathroom. (I know what you're thinking. I think it's disgusting, too, and I was raised in Britain.) A larger house might have a second toilet in its own room. In this situation, the loo is both the room, and the thing that you sit on. So there's a loo in the bathroom, and a loo in the loo.

loo - from the French for l'eau (water) and is essentially a room with water, a euphemism. WC or water closet - a room provided with a water source, then applied to the actual apparatus. bathroom - a room with a bath in the whole world except North America where it now doesn't need a bath and is used as a euphemism so that Americans don't have ...

Hmm, okay, a totally non-grammatical (probably, and thus very likely totally wrong) answer by an avowed non-grammarian (who nevertheless described and describes himself as a grammar-nazi at times):

2014年12月6日 · 'Lieutenant' comes from French lieu ('place') and tenant ('holding'). Some sources claim that 'lieutenant' had alternative spellings such as leftenant, leftenaunt, lieftenant, lieftenaunt etc., and that the ModE pronunciation with /f/ …

The word gardyloo is a warning cry uttered before throwing wastewater (literally and euphemistically) out of a window. Every source I've found has traced this word back to some French phrase transl...

2020年8月13日 · Right too ro loo ra loo ra loo, right too ro loo ra loo ra loo, right too loo ra lay. In the scene from Dombey and Son quoted in the posted question, Mr Chick seems to be invoking a chorus from a popular (and comic) music-hall song at a rather inopportune time. I imagine that most of Dickens's English readers in 1846–1848 would have been ...

What is the difference between Have a look and Take a look (meaning/connotations)? For example: Have a look at the question. Take a look at the question. For some reason I only found first versio...

2015年7月4日 · In that passage, the speaker was referring to a class distinction in the usage of the words. He was saying, in essence, that an upper-class (hence upper-deck) Englishman would never use the crass word "toilet", he would always say lavatory (that's pronounced LAV-a-tree in British, LAV-a-Tor-ee in American).