Talk:toilet

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EN: Vague circular definitions

Surely we can do better than vague circular definitions like

Perhaps these entries were written by a US-English speaker who thought that this would be clear to US-English-speaking readers.

Note well that the markup as ] is not visible when just viewing the article, rather than the source code.

Note also that the sense presumably referred to appears after these definitions.

—DIV (1.145.115.242 13:32, 2 February 2023 (UTC))Reply

EN: Euphemism

Should several of these definitions be tagged as euphemisms, as is the case at lavatory, given, "From its use as a private room, toilet came to refer euphemistically to lavatories and then to its fixtures, beginning in the United States in the late 19th century."? —DIV (1.145.115.242 13:41, 2 February 2023 (UTC))Reply