• ummthatguy@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      According to the local LLM:

      The word “loo” is a British term for a toilet that is polite and informal. It is commonly used in the UK and Ireland.

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        They say “dunny” in Australia and New Zealand because in Scotland in the 1800s, they called it a dunnekin, which was a Scots word that literally means “shit house.”