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When I was growing up in Ireland, a "bathroom" was a room that had a
bath and no toilet. The separate room with the commode was called "the
toilet" or sometimes the W.C. (the water closet). Apparently the term
closet was used because in the 1800s when homeowners started installing
toilets indoors they often displaced clothes and linens in a "closet",
as a closet was the right size to take the commode. It has been
suggested that the British term "loo" comes from Waterloo (water-closet
... water-loo), but no one seems to know for sure. Another suggestion is
that the term comes from the card game of "lanterloo" in which the pot
was called the loo!
London is the largest metropolitan area in the whole of the European
Union (and one of my favorite cities in the world). London has been a
major settlement for over 2,000 years and was founded as a town by the
Romans who called it Londinium. The name "Londinium" may have existed
prior to the arrival of the Romans, and no one seems too sure of its
origins. Famously, the City of London is a one-square-mile area at the
center of the metropolis, the area that marked old medieval London. "The
City", as it is commonly called, has its own Mayor of the City of
London (the Mayor of London is someone else), and it's own City of
London Police Force (the London Metropolitan Police are the police
usually seen on the streets, a different force).
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