Potty talk

[cornettracing80]

Edit: Split from Louisis's 'My adventure' topic ... Evilkeen

louis...he doesnt much like being called lou..(from experience )

[maka0020]

my bad - i am pretty sure i have read that correction many of times... sorry louis

[cornettracing80]

i am not sure but i assume its because a lou is a toilet in europe....like my dads name is john...same thing ...

[steve]

The spelling is different, the toilet one is spelt "loo", but........does anyone know why the word "loo" refers to the toilet?
I know one version of the story, but I am not sure of its validity, lets see how many versions we can find.

[cornettracing80]

i am out of this conversation..they are toilets,john,pot,potty...porcelain goddess..when your "praying" there after too much booze...
umm throne..thats about it ..i am very interested to find out where "loo" came from tho....

[ChadH]

http://kottke.org/05/02/loo-etymology
Several possibilities here!

[cornettracing80]

louisis is going to look at this and be like "wtf did you guys do to my thread?"....

[ChadH]

Sorry Louis, I didn't realise I was posting on this thread.
Could mods maybe split this thread!

[cornettracing80]

and call it what?....potty talk?....

[steve]

The room 100 story is the one I heard, although I heard that it was the Victorians because the wanted to be discrete and not write toilet on the doors.
I also apologise for helping to highjack LouIsis's page, maybe admin or a moderator could move this to another page, but I am not sure about "potty talk",
Maybe "word history" and folk could post other stories about the history of the words that we use in everyday talk.

[steve]

ok, potty talk it is then.

[evilkeen]

Sounds good enough to me - couldn't think of anything better!

[cornettracing80]

he went with that...it could have easily been steves idea as well....

[antp]

I think that it should have been tish.

[adamwest]

Head/watercloset/crapper/dogs water bowl/pisser/klo