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 a common and often misunderstood label.<\/p>\n
A recent discovery on social media has people baffled. \u201cI\u2019m glad someone asked because I\u2019ve been wondering this for years,\u201d one person wrote, while another admitted, \u201cI can\u2019t believe I\u2019ve been living with a WC sign and had no idea why it was called WC.\u201d<\/p>\n
So, what does it stand for? The term \u201cWC\u201d actually means \u201cwater closet,\u201d a name from the 1900s when toilets were first placed in small closets with running water. As indoor plumbing became more common, the name stuck.<\/p>\n
A TikToker explained, \u201cBefore indoor plumbing, we 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 put the toilet? Just put it in a closet.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now, \u201cWC\u201d refers to a room with a toilet but no bathtub, as confirmed by Plumb World: \u201cWC has been used instead of bathroom to describe a room with a toilet but no bath.\u201d<\/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":6366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n