a question to all europeans or people who can answer this

i was in Europe for vacation and i noticed that wherever there was a washroom, it said "W.C" i was just wondering what that stood for

In England the toilet is known as the Water Closet, abbreviated as "W.C".

Yeah, when I went to England, I walked right past the toilet because I was used to seeing "Restrooms" in America.

Water Closet is an interesting euphemism.

As far as I knew, water closet was the proper term.

From OED:

WC



- abbreviation for (n) (Brit.) water closet. [1]

(n) (of a region) west central. [2]

There are lots of other British English words, slang terms and euphemisms for the W.C. too: bogs, shitter, crapper, can, closet, privy, powder-room, latrine, loo, smallest room, washroom, urinal, thunder-box, comfort station, shit house, and outhouse.

We also have hundreds of euphemisms for going to the toilet too, such as to point Percy at the porcelain and to syphon the python. Do you have any phrases like this?

My dad says "take a leek" for going to the toilet.

should be "take a leak"

I think in many European countries they have signs that have "WC" even if the language is not English. I know Romania does this, and I think France even does this (but I am not too sure about France).

italy has it. but its kind of strange how some of those terms came about

Clark
I've seen that sign in France too. What's funny about the French, especially the old generation they use the term "les waters" for bathroom. Pronounce the "R" of waters "à la française".

Sima, es-tu français(e) ?

i have never seen this before (wc). what does water closet suppose to mean?

Yeah that is right: in Europe, especially in France and Italy we can see that... but what does it mean:???