# Yet Another Fargin' Dialect Poll **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 15, 2004, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-fargin-dialect-poll/229400 "2004-02-15T22:46:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2004, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-fargin-dialect-poll/229400/1 "2004-02-15T22:46:18Z")
Tell me the word you most commonly use to refer to a toilet bowl. Popular alternatives seem to be crapper, head, loo, and commode. Then tell me when you were born and where you spent your childhood. I’ll go first: toilet, 1969, Ohio. I can also answer for my father, who got me thinking about this: 1928, West Virginia, commode. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2004, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-fargin-dialect-poll/229400/2 "2004-02-15T22:55:53Z")
toilet, 1973, Tennessee ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2004, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-fargin-dialect-poll/229400/3 "2004-02-15T23:12:54Z")
Toilet, 1982, Tennessee ---
**Author:** ![cherry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cherry)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2004, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-fargin-dialect-poll/229400/4 "2004-02-15T23:18:34Z")
toilet, 1973, Toronto ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2004, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-fargin-dialect-poll/229400/5 "2004-02-15T23:30:54Z")
toilet, 1963, georgia ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-fargin-dialect-poll/229400/6 "2004-02-16T00:52:32Z")
Toilet, 1979, Florida. ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-fargin-dialect-poll/229400/7 "2004-02-16T01:13:00Z")
Toilet, 1985, Nova Scotia. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-fargin-dialect-poll/229400/8 "2004-02-16T03:37:32Z")
Toilet, 1958, Ontario. ---
**Author:** ![yBeayf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e274bd/32.png) [@yBeayf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yBeayf)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-fargin-dialect-poll/229400/9 "2004-02-16T03:46:55Z")
Toilet, 1982, Houston. Everyone else in my family calls them toilets except for: My grandfather: Commode, 1920-something, Oklahoma City. My grandmother: Commode, 1920-something, some farm in Arkansas. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-fargin-dialect-poll/229400/10 "2004-02-16T03:49:15Z")
toilet, 1963, Southern California ---
**Author:** ![Empress\_Jolrael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@Empress\_Jolrael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Empress_Jolrael)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-fargin-dialect-poll/229400/11 "2004-02-16T03:56:15Z")
toilet at home, loo at school, water closet when joking. 1985, Australia. ---
**Author:** ![SnoopyFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@SnoopyFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnoopyFan)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-fargin-dialect-poll/229400/12 "2004-02-16T04:17:56Z")
Toilet, Kentucky, 1977. (Or commode) ---
**Author:** ![Goofus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7feea3/32.png) [@Goofus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Goofus)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-fargin-dialect-poll/229400/13 "2004-02-16T04:54:27Z")
throne, 1974, Illinois ---
**Author:** ![glas\_onion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9dc877/32.png) [@glas\_onion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glas_onion)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-fargin-dialect-poll/229400/14 "2004-02-16T13:24:54Z")
Jacks, 1979, Dublin, Ireland. I think this is a distinct Dublin, maybe Irish, word. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-fargin-dialect-poll/229400/15 "2004-02-16T13:33:28Z")
London, 1967 Polite society: loo At work: toilet Informally: bog ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-fargin-dialect-poll/229400/16 "2004-02-16T14:51:23Z")
1. Holland. WC. THis is Dutch, but you all know what I mean, don’t you? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-fargin-dialect-poll/229400/17 "2004-02-16T17:16:57Z")
toilet, 1968, New York State among casual company now: potty ---
**Author:** ![Grasshopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f19dbf/32.png) [@Grasshopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grasshopper)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-fargin-dialect-poll/229400/18 "2004-02-16T20:29:15Z")
toilet, 1982, Ohio but my grandma is pot, 1920, North Dakota ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-fargin-dialect-poll/229400/19 "2004-02-16T22:42:58Z")
Toilet, 1955, New Jersey (USA) ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2004, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-fargin-dialect-poll/229400/20 "2004-02-17T04:33:28Z")
Toilet, 1986, southern Maryland (dc area)/Southern California. My pot and my toilet are two _very_ different things, btw. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-fargin-dialect-poll/229400.md?page=2)