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   On Fri, 22 Dec 2023 12:02 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)   
   prd@pauldormer.cix.co.uk (Paul Dormer) wrote:   
      
   > In article <5fd4c2cd-0046-4e89-916a-1184c100a914n@googlegroups.com>,   
   > evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com () wrote:   
   >   
   > > As I understand it, a quarter-bath has a toilet but nothing else, a   
   > > half-bath a toilet and a sink, and a three-quarter bath a toilet, a   
   > > sink, and a shower stall.  My parents' house, built in the 1950s, had   
   > > a three-quarter bath off the master bedroom, and it was by no means   
   > > an upscale house.  (They paid $17,500 in 1964; adjusted for inflation   
   > > that would be $168,089 in 2023.)   
   >   
   > And then there is the thing that in the UK (and equivalent in other   
   > European countries) a bathroom is a room with a bath in it, but not   
   > necessarily a toilet.  Indeed, a house my family lived in from the   
   > sixties had two toilets, one upstairs, one downstairs, but no bath in   
   > either.  There was a separate room with a bath and a washbasin.  (And   
   > eventually, my parents added a shower to the bath.)   
   >   
   > Lynne Murphy in The Prodigal Tongue, an examination of the differences   
   > between British and American English, tells of seeing a guide at a museum   
   > in London refusing to answer the question from an American tourist,   
   > "Where is the bathroom?" until they actually asked for the toilet.  And   
   > when I was trying to learn German on Duolingo, an American complained it   
   > wouldn't take Badzimmer as a translation of toilet.   
      
   Zimmer badly framed?   
      
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