{"id":104431,"date":"2019-02-27T00:42:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T17:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/this-way-to-the-house-of-easement-brief-letters\/"},"modified":"2019-02-27T01:03:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T18:03:51","slug":"this-way-to-the-house-of-easement-brief-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/this-way-to-the-house-of-easement-brief-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"This way to the house of easement | Brief letters"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nOther words for toilets | Arms to Saudi Arabia | Wasabi KitKat | Clergy as tulipsLinda Fishwick objects to the use of \u201cbathroom\u201d to designate the room where one goes to relieve oneself (Letters, 25 February). Unfortunately, two of her preferred terms are equally euphemistic: \u201clavatory\u201d originally meant the room where one washed (and still has that meaning in the context of abbey ruins), and performing one\u2019s toilet was the process of dressing, arranging one\u2019s hair etc \u2013 usually done in private. Perhaps she might like to adopt the accurate but inoffensive Elizabethan term \u201cthe house of easement\u201d.Bruce HolmanWaterlooville, Hampshire\u2022 I am not sure it is necessary to travel to Uganda to hear euphemistic talk of the \u201csmallest room\u201d (Letters, 26 February). There appears to be some uncertainty over who actually first said it, but there is a well-known response to a poor theatre review that goes: \u201cI am in the smallest room of the house. I have your review in front of me. Soon it will be behind me.\u201dMichael EganUme\u00e5, Sweden Continue reading…
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