Use of the term "bathroom" rather than restroom/women'/men's room
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I was brought up that it was crude and actually inaccurate to call a public restroom a "bathroom" as there are no bathing facilities in the typical restroom.
Now I even hear newspeople talk about public "bathrooms". Why the change? To me it sounds crude and substandard - like something a kid or uneducated person might say.
It is inaccurate and low class to call a public restroom a bathroom.
Everything you said is correct.
Ignore the newspeople.
The terms are regularly used interchangeably. The fact that you don't like one or the other is irrelevant. It's not about you.
And for the people parsing out the constituent components of the words, two points:
*one no more 'rests' there than one 'washes' there, and
*anyway, that's not how the English language works
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Originally Posted by Mightyqueen801
When I was young, I was a secretary in an engineering construction office that included a significant number of former Navy Seabees. I learned at 20 that if someone said they were going to "the head", it meant the men's room.
I guess that hails back to when only men occupied the 'business end' of the USN: It's ships.
It is inaccurate and low class to call a public restroom a bathroom.
Everything you said is correct.
Ignore the newspeople.
The problem is in much of the Anglophone world "restroom" specifically marks you out as American/low class. The idea of Americans trying to be posh is already funny. But to distinguish it on "restroom" is ironic. One would say WC, bathroom or such. If one wanted to use a euphemism, as a lady, then powder room is preferred. Restroom - no.
I just keep picturing Cousin Randy emptying his RV septic down the drain in front of the Griswolds house in National Lampoons Christmas Vacation....saying, "Clark the ****ters full."
If I was asked where the toilet was I would tell them it's in the bathroom.
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