In response to Jane Ryder’s deliberation (Funny thing – just saying … column published August 31) over the word “loo” used in England meaning the toilet (or should that be washroom in Canada which could be interpreted as laundry in Britain!).
I point out the comparison with the Scottish expression “gardyloo”  derived from the French garde l’eau. Gardeloo was used as a warning town cry when the evening hour decreed the time when dirty wastewater, including all manner of household slops, was thrown down from the tenement windows to the street gutters.