so sorry

[anuran]

Woman with North American accent: "Are there any restrooms near here?"
Me: "Yes, the public TOILETS are nearby, if you walk down the main street you'll see a sign for public TOILETS, turn right down Bridge Street, the TOILETS are just next to the Post Office."
"..thanks!"

I wasn't correcting her, restrooms is perfectly acceptable English. I was just bored.

(Also: I was reading online scans of Victorian documents, and the logbook for a School in the 1860s uses "Vacation" as oppose to holiday. so there.)

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[jeffluff.livejournal.com]

i read an article once about how a lot of american sentence construction that annoys english people (speaking of badly constructed sentences) is actually based on old 'proper' english... but shhh, don't tell them that...