Help with wording

[donutsweeper]

UK peeps, a question on wording (that I'm too embarrassed about to post over at  dw_britglish .)

For a US character I would say that, after receiving a a life-altering injury, a character is barely capable of going to the bathroom by himself.  Bathroom, in this case, would mean the ability to use the toilet and wash up and whatnot.

Would the UK wording be "use the w.c. (or is it WC) by himself" or simply toilet or lavatory or....?  Help!

Comments

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

it makes a lot of sense- culturally they are they hot spots. The midwest and south are often kind of skipped over in the mindset of those types- there used to be this cartoon of the US, where NY and NYC were huge and the east coast too, there was this smushed little bit that was the midwest and then there was CA that took up most of the south and west.

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

I've seen that map! It's pretty funny. I just noticed a comment in somebody's journal that her friend in NYC called the whole middle of the country "Ohindianidahutah" or something like that. *g* With the media centered on the coasts, it's understandable. I don't mind, like Xander, I like the quiet. :)

I couldn't find the one you're talking about, but have we discussed this one before? I know travels_in_time and I have...

http://www.lukecole.com/Electoral%20Maps/Maps6.htm

Then there's this - hee

http://www.georgeglazer.com/archives/maps/archive-nyc/nyersideasm.html

Oh, and this is what Texans really think. *g*

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/172-texas-is-bigger-than-everything/

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

You showed me the Jesusland one before- I'm apparently in the US of Canada! Which I'm oddly okay with!

The NY one's similar to what I was thinking, but that TX one is hysterical!