"loo" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an informal term used to refer to a toilet, usually a public one, and can be used in any context. For example: "I need to find a loo quickly before my coffee kicks in!".
It's partly the lack of solid walls, with the sense that, when you sleep in a field with strangers, and can hear the farting and the sighing, the whispered bedtime stories, the trips to the loo in pyjamas, we are all in it together.
I get up and go to the loo, both ankles and one knee aching already… Awesome, guys!
Was she disruptive like Conrad Hilton, brother of Paris, who recently locked himself in the loo to smoke marijuana and then went round screaming "I will fucking own anyone on this flight, they are fucking peasants".
Of course it was frightening, but mostly for the parents, who had, incidentally, left in two cars as part of a larger party while Nancy slipped off to the loo.
I went to the loo during the screening and, when I returned, for a moment I thought I'd walked into the wrong auditorium because the film had changed so completely.
Aidah Ebrahim, project director for Umande, says that between 350 and 1,000 people visit each of the toilet blocks every day, paying three cents each to use the loo, and a few cents more for a hot shower, if those are available.
And the landlord at the Junction lets you use the loo even if you're not buying a drink.
Although ostensibly bought as a such-fun loo book (loo being a very Sloane word), here was actually a how-to manual for all those who bowed down to the patron saint of Sloanedom, the blessed Lady Diana.
Shoppers may not be able to afford Dior dresses or Cartier watches, went the argument, but they still need loo paper and detergent.
One moment you are contentedly showering your enormous, overstretched self, or lying on a hard hospital bed with nothing much to do; the next all hell is breaking loose, the midwife screaming, rubber gloves flying, monitors beeping, partner fled to the loo, and the Mozart tape you brought to usher the new soul into the world completely beside the point.
Not in baseball, where people wander about at will even though there are plenty of breaks between innings where one can go to the loo etc.
