Ours is the Loo, Our grandchildren call it the toilet,generally it’s can I use your toilet nannie, when I was growing up my grandparents called it the lavatory and it was down the garden, it was one of my earliest memories I was around 4
I would never have been allowed to say toilet, far too coy and euphemistic - though lavatory (which was allowed) is also a euphemism, meaning a place for washing. I’ve settled on loo as a way of avoiding either.
My mum always used to say "I'm just popping outside" even though it was nearly 50 years since we'd had an outside toilet! She would then proceed up the stairs to the bathroom.....
Loo for us but the gc say "need the toilet" usually at the last minute! Mr manc says just going for a Jimmy (riddle). 4 year old usually says bathroom but the other day told his parents "I'm going for a Jimmy like grandpop"!
Sharon- I love that! I say loo or toilet, maybe ladies when out and about. Like others, I find that lavatory has nasty connotations. I was at school in the 80s and it was bogs then too. It seems to have spanned the generations. I'm pretty certain that the kids at my school say bogs too.
Like grannysyb, the word toilet was forbidden. Lavatory at home, lavs at school (also quite nice girls’ grammar) but once I started work at the BBC the approved word was loo - and it still is. I still can’t abide the word toilet, which probably says more about me than is helpful.
Our 7 year old grand daughter is still excited about the time we had our bathroom decorated, and often says “Do you remember the time when we had to go down the shed and pee in a bucket?” Otherwise we all go to the toilet.
I have invented a new name for mine and have been calling it the "toilette" for some time. I am in England but it sounds quite French to call it toilette. When I am in my daughters house I say to the GC I must pop into the toilette they call their mum and say "Nannie can't talk properly." It's all fun and eases my boredom.
We call it the loo. Lavatory when I was a child, at home and school.
At our age now, suddenly rushing out of a room, there is no need to announce where we are going. It is also the only time we move anywhere with speed. ?