Many people are just now realizing what the \u201cWC\u201d on restroom signs actually means. In the US, public restrooms have many<\/p>\n
names\u2014lavatory, restroom, or throne\u2014but \u201cWC\u201d remains a common and often misunderstood label. A recent discovery on<\/p>\n
social media has people baffled. \u201cI\u2019m glad someone asked because I\u2019ve been wondering this for years,\u201d one person wrote, while<\/p>\n
another admitted, \u201cI can\u2019t believe I\u2019ve been living with a WC sign and had no idea why it was called WC.\u201d So, what does it stand<\/p>\n
for? The term \u201cWC\u201d actually means \u201cwater closet,\u201d a name from the 1900s when toilets were first placed in small closets with<\/p>\n
running water. As indoor plumbing became more common, the name stuck. A TikToker explained, \u201cBefore indoor plumbing, we<\/p>\n
actually had a room for the bathtub\u2026 Indoor plumbing comes along, and there is already a room with a bath\u2026 so where do you<\/p>\n
put the toilet? Just put it in a closet.\u201d Now, \u201cWC\u201d refers to a room with a toilet but no bathtub, as confirmed by Plumb World:<\/p>\n
\u201cWC has been used instead of bathroom to describe a room with a toilet but no bath<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Many people are just now realizing what the \u201cWC\u201d on restroom signs actually means. In the US, public restrooms have many names\u2014lavatory, restroom, or throne\u2014but \u201cWC\u201d remains… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance"],"yoast_head":"\n