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Unread 04-11-2010, 05:21 AM
Gregory Dowling Gregory Dowling is offline
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Curiously WC survives in Italy - or at least the term "water closet" does, always abbreviated to "il water", pronounced "vattair".

They also call it, as in most other languages I'd guess, "il bagno" (bathroom) and, rather charmingly, "il gabinetto". More vulgar is "il cesso", as in cesspit.
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