I've absolutely no idea. Why would I know that? :-)

>Do you know if they are building closets in Germany now? When I was there, there were no closets (I was told they were taxed on the rooms) but only shranks.
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>>>>Until it dawned on me that you were using the European term toilet to refer to the restroom (or bathroom),
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>>>There was nothing to have a bath in, or have a rest on (unless you're the, ahem, concentrated reader-on-the-throne type), it was just two pieces of porcelain (the seat and the pissoir) and a small basin, maybe 3'x5' - no place to bathe or rest :). OK, just an urinal.
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>>>>the image you described was rather interesting. :o)
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>>>":o)" indeed :).
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>>>> I haven't been to Europe for a few years and I've grown accustomed to toilet referring only to the fixture.
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>>>The confusion can be created in any direction. For example, we've taken the word "closet" to mean "restroom" - from the British "water closet", assuming that it meant "water loo". No matter that I speak English for so long, I still didn't know that "closet" would actually translate into what we call "plakar" (maybe coming from French "placard", but if it is, we took that one wrong too :). And so it happens that there's a situation where a friend of ours has a full house - some friends are staying until they find better accommodation. "But where do they sleep?" "In the closet."
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>>>You can imagine the wrong image we got :).
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>>What the Americans call a closet we call a wardrobe. I've known of "somnamicturists" who've used that too! :-)
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>>BTW, one theory for the British word "loo" is supposed to come from the days before sewers when foke just threw there effluent out the window into the street, with the french cry "Gardez l'eau" (watch out for the water) which got corrupted to "gardi loo"
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>>Similarly, "toodaloo" is supposed to come from the WWI and Tommy's inability to pronounce "a tout a l'heure"