He washed his face in the loo!
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He washed his face in the loo!
’I washed my face in the loo’.
In the UK, that means he washed his face in the toilet.
Is there a different meaning in the US?
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Thank you. I know now that it’s not an error.
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It seems to me that we Americans use the "loo" improperly because we use it as a British expression to mean the bathroom. I think we are just wrong in our usage and have misappropriated the word. Maybe it's okay if the book uses it as a slang term.