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"with a path"
Whew! Talk about your euphemisms. Sounds like a garden path.
As a matter of fact, wild flowers did grow profusely around privies! A little restraint with comments please.
On an oblique path : Knowing about use of "privy" for an outhouse, I was somewhat taken aback when I first read stories about England where the author talked about the Privy Council to say nothing of Privy Counsellors! Oh! the images!
Come to think of it ....
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And so begins the list of realtorese:
price recently reduced = still way overpriced
summer room = outdoors with a roof
three-seasons room = indoors without heat
mature plantings = overgrown and diseased
picturesque = no identifiable architectural style
cozy = too small for midgets
handyman special = condemned by the authorities
with a path = without plumbing
quaint = without plumbing or electricity
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Almost a hundred years ago there was a humorist named Chick Sale, who may have been a vaudeville performer. His repertoire consisted so largely of privy jokes that his name became eponymous for such facilities.
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stories about England where the author talked about the Privy Council to say nothing of Privy Counsellors! Oh! the images
wow - I do have to protest! a "counsellor" is one who is consulted for advice on whatever problems s/he specialises in. The person that you are referring to, above, is a Privy Councillor, someone who sits on a Council (in this case, of course, the Private Council called by the Sovereign to discuss matters of moment to the monarchy. It is a fine line, but councillors, on the whole, make decisions, rather than give advice, as do counsellors.
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In UK, the epitome of 'Esate-Agent-speak" is, "desirable residence, in need of some modernisation - ", meaning a C17 cottage that has almost no roof left, and a six-foot ash-tree growing out of the kitchen sink.
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a six-foot ash-tree growing out of the kitchen sink
Ah, gone is the classical education. There should have been at least some mention of the word mythic
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Oh! I'll gladly pass up the classical education for signs of ANY education in Estate Agents/realtors 
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PS - any mention of Ethics from an English Estate Agent can only occur if, a) he has a lisp, and, b) he is referring to property situate (sic) in the county immediately to the East of London!  (and, waddayaknow! my hand has caught up with the rest of my body!)
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(and, waddayaknow! my hand has caught up with the rest of my body!)
Congratulations! That explains the big smile!
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what is taboo changes from culture to culture.. in the past-- "out house's" were sometime 2 or 3 seaters.. and there are public toilets in various places that offer less than 'western' privacy.. some rather "civilized" cultures have no problem with (men especially) urinating in public.
From Herodotus's "Histories":
[2] Just as the Egyptians have a climate peculiar to themselves, and their river is different in its nature from all other rivers, so, too, have they instituted customs and laws contrary for the most part to those of the rest of mankind. Among them, the women buy and sell, the men stay at home and weave; and whereas in weaving all others push the woof upwards, the Egyptians push it downwards. [3] Men carry burdens on their heads, women on their shoulders. Women pass water standing, men sitting. They ease their bowels indoors, and eat out of doors in the streets, explaining that things unseemly but necessary should be done alone in private, things not unseemly should be done openly.
Now, if the Egyptians have "instituted customs and laws contrary for the most part to those of the rest of mankind", what does that tell us about the Ancient Greeks?
Quote taken from http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126&layout=&loc=2.35
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