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<blockquote data-quote="Nightjar" data-source="post: 668291" data-attributes="member: 1414"><p>Dunny, explained .</p><p>Why do they call it the dunny?</p><p></p><p></p><p>In Australian English the word dunny is used informally for toilet. <strong>It derives from the British dialect word dunnekin meaning 'privy' (from dung 'excrement' and ken 'house')</strong>. It was originally used in Australian English, from the 1930s, to refer to an unsewered outside toilet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nightjar, post: 668291, member: 1414"] Dunny, explained . Why do they call it the dunny? In Australian English the word dunny is used informally for toilet. [B]It derives from the British dialect word dunnekin meaning 'privy' (from dung 'excrement' and ken 'house')[/B]. It was originally used in Australian English, from the 1930s, to refer to an unsewered outside toilet. [/QUOTE]
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