A bathroom is only a bathroom if it has a BATH in it. Do you see how that works? The fact that the word 'bathroom' starts with the letters b-a-t-h might give you a clue.
2006-09-15 13:14:01 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Omg don't get me started on 'restroom'. Exactly, you need to start calling it the 'toilet' like normal countries do.
2006-09-15 13:19:06 · update #1
What is so offensive about the word TOILET???????????
2006-09-15 13:26:49 · update #2
ACTUALLY, to all you people saying "but the toilet is the object, not the room", that is NOT true. In the UK people will say "I am going to the toilet" - and this is understood to mean the room.
2006-09-16 02:57:38 · update #3
Do you always "rest" in a restroom?
we should just called it the toilets
2006-09-15 13:17:06 · answer #1 · answered by mulan2890 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hi,
Actually, the word toilet is the OBJET you sit on... not the room you GO TO....
The "bath" room was, in the past times, the room your where making your personal higiene, wether a bath or other washing or shaving.... In those days, there were no "toilets"... and the "backhouse" was a simple little square building where all evacuation was done....
With time, the actual "toilets" were incorporated to the "washing room" called "bathroom"....
The "bathroom" is a word admitted as being the "place" or "room" where personal higiene is conducted....
Therefore, wether there is an actual bath or not oes not change the "purpose of that "room" ans thus, the name "bathroom" stands as the "personal higiene room"...
Hope this clears your mind....lol...
2006-09-16 04:38:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why do you care? Does it hurt you when people call a restroom a bathroom? Not sure exactly when it started being a bathroom, but most likely back in the old days. When people didn't have many places to go other than other peoples houses, in early america. If this is the case it would seem to be its called bathroom cause back then 90% of bathrooms had Baths. Name probly stuck, or something along those lines. Who cares if it bothers you, your a moron.
2006-09-15 20:35:00 · answer #3 · answered by SwedishRogue 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you are in a restaurant and someone says " Excuse me Im going to the restroom." Or "Excuse me Im going to the bathroom" it sounds much better then "Im going to the toilet". Some people go to the restroom to check their make-up or wash their hands. Bathroom or restroom sounds much better and that is what they are called. A toilet is only one item that is in a bathroom, the room it's self is called a BATHROOM or RESTROOM!!! NOT A TOILET!
bath·room (bthrm, -rm, bäth-) KEY
NOUN:
A room equipped with facilities for taking a bath or shower and usually also containing a sink and toilet.
IDIOM:
go to the bathroom Informal
To defecate or urinate.
rest·room (rstrm, -rm) KEY
NOUN:
A room equipped with toilets and lavatories for public use.
2006-09-15 20:26:07 · answer #4 · answered by larrys_babygurl_4life 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well ya the proper word is toilet but guess people got used to saying bathrooms.
2006-09-15 20:29:59 · answer #5 · answered by Ms_4peace 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What about W.C. or water closet. I think that is a complete misnomer too. Is there a closet that is full of water? You would think the water would leak out.
However, these rooms for bowel and bladder movements do have implements that use water and some of the rooms are only just bigger than a closet.
2006-09-15 20:25:44 · answer #6 · answered by S G 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
just to let you know we call them bathrooms because in our homes there are bath tubs in the same room as a toilet and if you have a problem with what we call things here in America that's your problem because that's what we call them so get used to it. And who cares anyway they call them loos in England and you don't hear us complaining.
2006-09-15 20:27:09 · answer #7 · answered by halouno 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I guess you could call it the "Throne - room". Most guys sit on it like it's a throne. Besides - it just wouldn't be proper etiquette to ask for the toilet!?
My two year old just asks for a tree.
2006-09-15 20:24:40 · answer #8 · answered by snowy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's the implied way we say it. There are expressions in every language with 2 or more words/phrases for the same verb/noun/adjective. This is simply one of the ones in English.
2006-09-15 21:11:13 · answer #9 · answered by the Politics of Pikachu 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yea we know French people don't have bath-rooms.
You're right.
But I usually don't say bath-room, I ask for a restroom.
I guess people don't like to say toilet, it's to much like saying you have to sh!t or piss.
Restroom has more of a mystery to it. lol
If you ask for a restroom you could just want to wash your hands or something.
2006-09-15 20:29:14 · answer #10 · answered by psych0bug 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋