SO is that how 'washroom' came about?

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the term "Wash room" always conjures up images of a bucket and a rag on a stick

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In the U.S., "washroom" is synonymous with "toilet/bathroom/restroom/etc." We'd call the place where you do your laundry "the laundry room."

From CaoimhínSF: Oops, somehow I modified Red's post, rather than posting my own! Sorry!
Just realized I must have clicked on "edit" when I meant to click on "quote".

No worries...I do that all the time! -- Redwolf

Only posh people here 'do laundry'; the rest of us just 'do the washing'.

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Actually, it's one of the ways to tell a Canadian from a [US] American if you can't tell from the accent. Canadians go to washrooms, although I think some people in the Midwest near the Canadian border do it, too. The rest of us go to bathrooms or restrooms (does anyone actually rest there?).

Another way to tell the difference: [US] Americans go to first grade when they start school, while Canadians go to grade one.

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I don't think I've ever rested much in a restroom, though I have in a rest area!*

I've heard "washroom" in Spokane, but Spokane is more a Midwestern city than a Northwestern one (and we're just a few hours from the Canadian border).

*(For people from outside the U.S., a "rest area" is a state-funded stopping place along an interstate freeway that has toilets, as well as (usually) a picnic ground, vending machines, etc. Usually some distance outside of cities or towns. No camping allowed, but you can park for up to eight hours. They're designed to encourage people to take a break on long drives, since a "road trip" in the U.S. can cover several hundred miles in any given day)

[font=]So, then what would you call an outhouse (an outdoor toilet)? And the root cellar? And the pantry?

And speaking of school, what is the terminology for the various grades, like first, second, etc?

As I've just said on another thread - the outside toilet is often referred to as - Tigh an Asail.

Apparently some people do. On more than one occasion I heard loud snoring coming from the cubicles in the toilets of our office block when I worked in Japan. Those people can sleep anywhere!

In Ireland, the toilets are sometimes referred to as "the jacks" but I don't think they eat pancakes there.

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My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

A pantry would be - pantrach (f) but in a traditional Irish cottage I'm guessing that it would probably have been some kind of wooden cupboard with mesh or grating on the sides - un garde-manger we call it here.