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[old bell]

I just had a junk email advertising 'Meds at carzy prices'.

I thought carzy was another name for toilet. Maybe that says it all.

 

[Ganymede]

Khazi, I believe. My Dad always said it, having done his National Service in the Middle East in 1946. I think I'll start saying it again. I usually say bogotory or lav at the moment.

 

[raleighnut]

Khazi, I believe. My Dad always said it, having done his National Service in the Middle East in 1946. I think I'll start saying it again. I usually say bogotory or lav at the moment.

At least you don't call it the "Restroom" mine can be far from restful after " 9 pints of Guiness and a Vindaloo" ( cheers Billy)

 

[Paulus]

At least you don't call it the "Restroom" mine can be far from restful after " 9 pints of Guiness and a Vindaloo" ( cheers Billy)

"Restroom" is just another Americanism that has joined the English language in the last few years. I don't like it as the use is just wrong.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Dunny or khazi in our house, we're very cosmopolitan see.

 

[raleighnut]

But are cyclists like Bears....

 

[ASC1951]

[QUOTE 3076341, member: 259"]That's what I thought as well. But the OED reckons it's from the Italian Casa (House) and it first appears in the sixties.[/QUOTE]As always, several other possibilities too: carsey, which is found in Cockney a century earlier; or m'khazi, which is Zulu and could have come back through Army slang at the same time.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Here, it's just the dunny...

 

[jefmcg]

toilet, lavatory, bathroom, loo are all euphemisms that have lost their original meaning - well, the last one will come to be something not said in polite society within our lifetimes.

Dunny and bog feel more honest.

As for spelling mistakes in spam: it's probably there to defeat the AI in spam detectors. Spam is full of such "errors"

 

[Ganymede]

At least you don't call it the "Restroom" mine can be far from restful after " 9 pints of Guiness and a Vindaloo" ( cheers Billy)

The first time I went to America, I was having lunch in a rather funky bar-restaurant and saw a sign to the "restrooms". I thought: "how nice, this place obviously gets very noisy in the evenings and they give you somewhere to get away from it all for a bit".

I've just been staying with American friends in LA and we went on a road trip - I'm sorry to say that I was saying "restroom" by the end of it because I kept having to ask for it at truck stops and you do have to use the local lingo. I'd say "bathroom" in their house, though indeed it did have a bath in it.

[QUOTE 3076341, member: 259"]That's what I thought as well. But the OED reckons it's from the Italian Casa (House) and it first appears in the sixties.[/QUOTE]

I'm absolutely certain that my Dad was saying this before the 60s. I'll ask him though. He was, in fact, stationed in Italy as well for some of his National Service.

 

[Ganymede]

[QUOTE 3076396, member: 259"]I was pretty certain as well, but I only have the OED with me here - I"ll look in the Chambers etymological one when I get home, as it often completely disagrees with the Oxford one.[/QUOTE]
I've just looked in my big 2-vol Complete OED (owned since about 1980) and it doesn't have it at all. It has "Kazi" which is some sort of Arabic judge. I can't speak to my dad till this afternoon but my linguistic curiosity is fired up now! Look what you started @old bell!

 

[Brandane]

You're all wrong. The correct term is "the cludgie".

 

[jefmcg]

Wik(ipedia/tionary) says it comes from a cockney word from the 1870s carsey http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/khazi

 

[Maverick Goose]

You're all wrong. The correct term is "the cludgie".

As in ''some glaikit wee bampot just boaked in the cludgie''....

 

[Durian]

I always thought it was rhyming slang for Benghazi a town in Libya. Never having been there, I don't know if it is a khazi there.