Toilet vs Bathroom

I don't. For me the toilet is the thing that you flush. The bathroom (or restroom) is the room where the toilet and sink are located.

CJ

Be careful with the words toilet, loo, lavatory in British English. Sometimes there can be a class system attached to them.

Lavatory is very formal and considered upper class.

Loo is middle class.

Toilet is working class.

I know you didn't ask the question and was refering to North America, but I thought you might be interested.

Dave PhillipsLoo is middle class.

Collins Concise Dictionary says loo is informal, but there's no such mention about toilet. Does that mean that middle class people use informal English but working class people don't?

The dictionary gives these sentences as examples of how toilet can be used:

1. She made Tina flush the

Cool Breeze Does that mean that middle class people use informal English but working class people don't?

- no of course not!

Loo is the informal form of lavatory (Collins (less concise) Dictionary) - which is why it gets classed as informal Toilet is a synonym rather than a relation to lavatory.

Cool Breeze2. Annette ran and locked herself in the toilet.

This would not be American usage.

What ever happened to the "W. C." ?

lagatawDo Northern Americans refer to the restroom/bathroom as toilet?

Well, since you ask:
I say, "Is someone in the bathroom?" Not, "Is someone in the toilet?"

I might say, "His project is in the toilet."

I'd say, "I need to use the bathroom," for unspecified purposes.

I might say, "I need to use the toilet" for specified

AvangiWhat ever happened to the "W. C." ?

It's commonly used in Finnish!

Again in the UK water closet (W.C) would make you sound about 100. I wish i never started this but was something that was mentioned in a lesson I observed and then I looked at all the connotations associated with it.

Can of worms comes to mind!

Dave Phillips Lavatory is very formal and considered upper class.
Loo is middle class.
Toilet is working class.

I'm sure you've had enough of this, Dave, but the format puzzles me. Are these three examples meant to represent the same hardware, or simply random hardware selections?

I'm quite sure in "North America," a lavatory is a "sink,"