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Water Closet (often abbrevaited as WC all across …

Comment posted on The Loo by marktjeffrey

Water Closet (often abbrevaited as WC all across Europe) is a polite form of euphemism for the toilet, that probably came about from the “smallest room” being little larger than a closet, and having a water tank for flushing purposes.

In fact I’m going to challenge Marina on this one, because I think the derivation of Loo comes from this.

Water Closet was sometimes referred to as the Waterloo (after the famous battle) as an even less offensive euphemism, which then got shortened to Loo. QED.

BTW, I grew up near a town called Waterlooville, which was supposedly built up around a camp of soldiers returning from the great battle.

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