An outhouse is a toilet that has been built outside the building it serves. An outhouse can be plumbed into the sewerage system, in which case it’s not much different from an indoor toilet. But in rural areas the outhouse may be more primitive—it may be a pit toilet (also known as a dunny or [more...]
The numerous words for “toilet” arise because: There are various types of toilet, many of which have distinct names, Some people don’t like to allude to bodily functions by referring to a toilet by name, so many euphemisms have been devised, and The colloquial names for toilets are often regional, so different places use different [more...]
http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?CC=GB&NR=189311604A&KC=A&FT=D&date=18930715&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_EP Did Someone Named Crapper Really Invent the Toilet? You’ve heard the story…right? An Englishman by the name of Thomas Crapper invented the toilet. In so doing, he not only put the world on the path to modern sanitation, but he also generously contributed the word crap to the English language. True story? Only partly. [more...]
The euphemism for going to the toilet used to be “spending a penny”. This probably referred to the price paid to visit a public toilet cubicle back then. But how much do we pay for the water that we flush down the loo? People pay different amounts for their water, but I’ve arbitrarily used the [more...]
There are two ways to hang toilet paper. You can place the tube so that the end of the paper comes over the top then hangs down away from the wall, or you can place it so that the end of the paper goes under the bottom then hangs against the wall. Described like that, [more...]