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.
Phyllis Davison
Parry Sound