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 to use another euphemism like toilet or lavatory. restroom/washroom - variations on bathroom

2011年9月7日 · The straight dope has an answer to this question printed in 1985. The origins of referring to the outhouse as "john" or "jake" evidently goes back to the 16th-century.

2016年4月13日 · I was wondering about the origin of using the terms "number one" and "number two" for going to the bathroom (for those unaware, number one is urinating, number two is defecating, at least in the US). I have used it several times myself without actually thinking about it and heard plenty of others use it as well.

2011年8月8日 · There's nothing impolite about the word "toilet" if you want to use a word for it, but in more formal environments, you might want to use the term "bathroom" (which, contrary to what Matt Ellen said, I believe is understood even when there's no hope of a bath nearby!), or " gents' / ladies' " (this has a sort of 'casual-but-professional' feel ...

2015年7月4日 · At someone's home, it is the bathroom (also a euphemism). But inAmE, only the fixture is called toilet. You would be considered a __yokel_ in most parts of the country if you asked to use the toilet. (Another euphemism, even more vague/abstract/demure, and not so common is use the facilities.)

"Bathroom" is not generally used in normal/informal conversation in the UK to mean toilet ("bathroom" normally means the room in your house which contains the bath, shower, toilet, etc.) but might work in a more formal context. Excuse me for a moment. or . Excuse me, back in a minute. are less explicit.

I have a story about the "on the bus". I read somewhere (or someone explained to me) that back in the day buses were open, so that one wasn't inside the bus per se, but rather on the top of the bus.

Wikipedia has a decent article on past tenses that explains a lot of this. To summarise: "They didn't start yet" is the negative form of the simple past, "They started."

I have observed that in my work place, whenever a mail is sent to more than one person( like an information, meeting request or a notice etc.), the mail starts with the salutation "Dear All". This,

The difference between "I and my friends" and "my friends and I" is purely a matter of courtesy - they are both grammatically correct.