Closets and Wardrobes and toilets and vests and things....

[Carol]

Carol earlier:
Don't young Englishmen wear such things as outer garments? If so, what
do they call them? 
>  
> Geoff:
> I'm sorry, I don't quite follow your drift in the last sentence. 

Carol again:
Sorry to be unclear. I meant, don't boys and young men in the UK wear
the sleeveless "wifebeater"-type shirts that we've been discussing (as
shirts, not undershirts)? Evidently, they don't call them
"wifebeaters." What term do they use?

> Carol:
> > But that still doesn't answer my original question, which is how
the room that Moaning Myrtle lives in, as opposed to the toilet that
she dives into to get to the U-bend (or S-bend, in HBP), is called.
the U.S. edition refers to it (inaccurately) as "Moaning Myrtle's
bathroom." What term is used in the UK edition?
> 
> Geoff:
> The British editions also talk about Moaning Myrtle's bathroom. In
the films, this is portrayed as I would expect a communal (women's) 
toilet to appear with a row of WCs and handbasins.

Carol:
The description of the room in the books also sounds to me like what
you would call a "toilet" rather than a "bathroom." After all, Myrtle
plunges into a toilet in the American sense, not a bathtub or shower.
Very odd that JKR would use that word in that sense. The prefects'
bathroom has a gigantic tub, not stalls with toilets, IIRC. Or does it
have both? And what about the boys' "bathroom" that Draco is crying in
in HBP? Is that "bathroom" in the UK edition as well?

Carol, who meant "natural," not "naural," gas in her earlier post, but
her finger missed the "t" key