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| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5146 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes  Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 9 of 43 29 March 2011 at 12:04am | IP Logged | ||
WC (way say) is the most common word for toilet/bathroom/restroom in the Netherlands as well, though toilet will also ring a bell. You could also say plee but I don't recommend that. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cowlegend999 Groupie CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4955 days ago 72 posts - 94 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 10 of 43 29 March 2011 at 1:35am | IP Logged | ||
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In Canada I and most other people generally say washroom. On occassion bathroom is used (more for a
house's washroom rather then a public one I find) and even rarer, though not unheard of, restroom. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4941 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 11 of 43 29 March 2011 at 2:36am | IP Logged | ||
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Well, even for English speakers, it can vary.
In addition to "restroom", there's the more common "bathroom" in the US - at least in spoken form, and "lavatory". Not to mention more colorful names, such as "can", "head" and "john", to name three. There are a million different ways to say it, proper or not. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Dragomanno Triglot Groupie Zimbabwe Joined 4814 days ago 80 posts - 98 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2, GermanB2 Studies: Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Latin, Lithuanian, Albanian, Ancient Greek | Message 12 of 43 29 March 2011 at 1:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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Britons also use the word "loo", don't they?
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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5658 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 13 of 43 29 March 2011 at 3:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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In Germany it's "Toilette".
Example: "Entschuldigen Sie, ich suche hier die Toilette." (Excuse me, I am looking for the xxx here.) In the Netherlands it's "wc". Example: "Ik ben op zoek naar de wc, waar kan ik die vinden?" (I am looking for the xxx, where can I find it?) Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 29 March 2011 at 3:19pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 6967 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 14 of 43 29 March 2011 at 5:11pm | IP Logged | ||
"WC" (vay-tsay) is widely understood in Eastern Europe too. I used the term in Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia without a problem. In Czech Republic and Slovakia, "záchod" is also used when referring to a toilet or room with a toilet (public place or in a home). Poles would use "ubikacja" for this. However when referring to a bathroom (i.e. a room with a sink and bathtub/shower stall, but the toilet is not necessarily here (which is especially common in older homes where the toilet is in a different room from the main washing/bathing equipment)), you'd use then "koupelna" in Czech, "łazienka" in Polish, or "kúpeľňa" in Slovak. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Hierbabuena Newbie Spain Joined 4839 days ago 19 posts - 36 votes Speaks: Spanish* Studies: EnglishB2, Mandarin | Message 15 of 43 29 March 2011 at 5:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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In Spain we called them 'cuarto de baño' or simply 'baño', even if there is no bathtub or
shower, 'aseo/s' and 'servicio/s'. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mrs. Dalloway Triglot Groupie Italy Joined 4780 days ago 70 posts - 95 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2, Russian Studies: GermanA2, French, Danish | Message 16 of 43 20 April 2011 at 10:53am | IP Logged | ||
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In Italy you'll be understood also by calling it WC "vee-chee" and in Russia so far I've only heard туалет, "too-ah-lee-et", as referring to public ones.
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