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Which leads to the question of whether any other language substitutes a man's name,like we use "john," as the euphemism for bathroom or latrine? Which I sometimes call a "jane," now, just to keep the ladies honest!
Does anyone know if this occurs in any other language but English. And does anybody know, offhand, how it came to be so?
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