It's also another way to say bathroom in Serbian! I had no idea other languages used it, too.
Very common across Europe. I'd say almost universal.
I was introduced to the term by Anne Frank's diary.
The only place I remember seeing it is in The Diary of Anne Frank. I'd guess it's on British tv/radio, too.
It is a common German word too.
You’ve never been to Canada, Europe, or India?
Not everyone gets the luxury of traveling around the world.
I've been to all of those places and only ever heard it called a WC or "water closet" in my high school french class.
It's fading out of use in most of Europe, as far as I can tell. My grandmother used to always say WC in Norway. I don't know of anyone in my parents generation (born around 1950) or younger that'd use it. We're mostly all familiar with it still though.
It’s still pretty common in at least Germany and Austria, but is superseded by „Toilette“.
In Finnish WC morphed at some point into a proper Finnish word, ”Vessa”.
In Norway in formal use it was superseded by "toalett". In informal use "do" is also pretty common. I don't know the etymology of that.
German and Austrian inspection toilets terrify me.
Not common in Canada at least not in the twentyfirst century. I’m from western Canada and have visited most other provinces.
Ya, but couldn't find any toilets so just held it in whole time.