2011年8月8日 · Both lavatory and loo are fine, and it's meaningless to talk about which is correct or more correct, IMHO. Interestingly, these terms are quite strong class indicators in the UK: loo is more often used by middle class speakers than, for instance, toilet.

2014年2月21日 · The word loo is not rude, as you can tell from Cambridge Dictionary. It's just an informal/colloquial word in the UK. It's as simple as that. The word restroom is not really used in the UK, as is John in this context. They are unfamiliar.

2013年10月3日 · Toilet and loo could be used to refer to all of the above. The probably apochryphal story is that early train carriages had two rooms, one marked 'toilet', which contained the toilet, and one marked 'lavatory' which contained the …

2014年12月6日 · While Americans (and possibly others) pronounce this as "loo-tenant", folks from the UK pronounce it as "lef-tenant". Why?

The word gardyloo is a warning cry uttered before throwing wastewater (literally and euphemistically) out of a window. Every source I've found has traced this word back to some French phrase transl...

2018年4月13日 · A Rectified Linear Unit is a common activation function in deep neural networks and is often abbreviated as " ReLU ". I usually pronounce it as /rel-you/ (with the "e" as in "relative" or "rectified"), but I often hear colleagues pronounce it /ray-loo/. Is there a consensus on the correct pronunciation of " ReLU "?

It comes down to : toilet - a euphemism based on a woman's morning ritual, then applied to the room and now to both the room and the bowl lavatory - means wash room and is a euphemism loo - from the French for l'eau (water) and is essentially a room with water, a euphemism.

If you mean both in the sense of anticipating something, both are equally valid. However 'I look forward' is more formal; it's the kind of thing you would write in an official letter. A typical example is the closing statement of a cover letter for a job application: I look forward to hearing from you soon. 'I am looking forward' is less formal. You would rarely say to a friend on the phone 'I ...

2016年4月13日 · I was wondering about the origin of using the terms "number one" and "number two" for going to the bathroom (for those unaware, number one is urinating, number two is defecating, at least in the US...

What is the difference between Have a look and Take a look (meaning/connotations)? For example: Have a look at the question. Take a look at the question. For some reason I only found first versio...