what do you call the toilet where you live?

hello, i live here in the philippines, we also called it toilet, CR which a shortcut for comfort room, restroom, however we have filipino term for toilet too,its called banyo or palikuran - which means toilet..i hope i gave you onother idea of the other terms used for toilets

I live in India. And here almost everyone will understand if you call it bathroom or toilet.

Being that I live in the states the room is called the bathroom and the potty is called a toilet. No biggie there. I have heard it called a potty room, a camode, a powder room, ladies room or mens room. Thats about all I can think of. I think I am going to have fun reading the other names. I bet I get reminded of other names I have heard here but forgot.

In Canada, toilets are just toilets (and washrooms and restrooms). I remember back in Taiwan though all the washrooms had WC written on them, took me quite a number of years before I found out that they meant Water Closets, and still I don't really understand why they're called Water Closets. Seems like a really funny name to me.

I call it the toilet a toilet where I live or I 'll say bathroom. When I lived with my parents my dad called it the toilet the white horse, or the gabanet that means bathroom in Italian.

in China we call toilets "??".By the way,I'm living in Wuhan,a big city which is located in the middle of China. Happy mylotting!

I am also in the UK here is some more names that refer to the toilet in our house. The bog, the little men's room or the little girls room. Also the men's room or the ladies room. I have also heard people, mostly woman say that they are going to powder their nose when they need to use the bathroom.

Here in Philippines most of the people will call it a CR or comfort room. But I have learned when before when I was still young that it is wrong. The right name for it is Restroom or Bathroom. Since then I started using those names. Some also calls it toilet or "banyo" in local dialect. I just learned from my husband that is some states they call it WC or "wash cabins." But here at home he put a sticker at the door or our bathroom that says "office." Since then we called it that way and every visitors who come to our house are laughing and tells us that we are very unique.

In India, if English is used, the word is Toilet. It is called WC(Water Closet) in Civil Engineering documents. The loo is called Urinals. In Railroad info plates they are called lavatories. In Hindi the term used is "shauchaalaya" which translates to "Cleanliness Room". There are about 23 official languages in India. Most have shauchaalaya or a minor variation of this as the word; the list will be too long and uninteresting.

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ROFL!!!!!!! I love it!! We just call it the loo x nothing special although as I have a 1 year old I'm sure when we come to potty train it will probaly be called something else!! MrsL x x

What an odd topic for conversation, but I guess variety keeps things interesting, doesn't it? We most often call it the "Potty" because we have several little kids in our family. It is also referred to as: the toilet the restroom the bathroom (whether or not there is a bathtub in there) the crapper (when hubby's friends are over) the loo (when my teenage son is feeling a touch anglophile :-)) the john the lavatory(no idea where that word comes from) It is a curious thing to have so many different names to refer to the very same room. I believe that there are different emotions tied to each term and that will decide which name gets used at that moment!

I call my toilet the dark throne lol seems like a fitting name to me.

hahaha.. cool thread, in my county, indonesia, ppl use to call it, WC, toilet, and kamar mandi or kamar kecil ^^

yES WE CALL THEM bATHROOMS, i AM CURIOUS TO KNOW WHAT OTHER cONTRIES CALL THEM?

This is kind of a funny yet serious discussion. Who would have thought there would be so many different names for bathrooms. I have never heard of comfort rooms or water closets but I have heard of powder rooms which is the same thing. When I was in school the teachers called the bathrooms lavatories or lavs for short. I just read a book and the characters called the toilets loos. I know some people also call toilets johns. When you go to The Outback Steakhouse restaurant the womens bathroom says Sheilas on the door. I can't remember what the mens room door says though. It doesnt matter to me what people want to call the bathroom as long as there is a toilet some place thats all that matters to me. I am glad I have never had to use an out house like they used to have to do in the olden days.

In my country, it's usually called the CR or comfort room. How interesting. In our local dialect, it's known as the banyo, but of course we don't refer to it as such when abroad. :) I also call it the washroom sometimes, but never the WC. I have never heard of water closets and public lavatories. very interesting.

Thats weird. I never knew there was different names. I just though restroom, bathroom, or toilet. I never considered other names. I know they used to call it the john. Then there was latrinne or something like that. So yeah everyone does have different but odd names i guess.

We call it the toilet or the comode.

I normally call it "toilet" when I talked to my family/very close friends. Call it "washroom", "restroom" when I talked to other people. Happy myLotting:))