[Vwoolf] E.C.??

[mark.travis at frontier.com]

 Commonly known in the USA as an outhouse.

Mark Scott
Very Common Reader (who has used a few of them in my day)

    On Tuesday, July 9, 2024 at 12:27:10 PM PDT, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:  
 
 I have just remembered that I was told by someone perhaps 10+ years older 
than I that when she graduated from her DipEd in NSW, she was (compulsorily) 
sent out to the bush (i.e. into the country) on her first school posting, 
and the first thing she had to do was dig a latrine trench.  For how many I 
don't know.

Stuart

-----Original Message----- 
From: Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf
Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2024 7:47 PM
To: Edward Mendelson ; vwoolf at lists.osu.edu
Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] E.C.??

An EC is an earth closet.  I've used one, or at least some repellent version
of one.

Stuart

-----Original Message----- 
From: Edward Mendelson via Vwoolf
Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2024 7:35 PM
To: vwoolf at lists.osu.edu
Subject: [Vwoolf] E.C.??

Virginia Woolf at least twice writes in her diary about an “E.C.” where the
sense seems to call for “W.C.”:

3 July 1919: "Nor is there hot water, nor a bath, & as for the E.C. I was
never shown it.”

1 October 1920: “execrable weather, no bath, one servant, & an E.C. down a
winding glade.”

Am I misinterpreting E.C.? Does the E. perhaps stand for “eau”? Is there a
private joke in which the “W” written sideways as an “E”? Am I missing the
point entirely?

Enlightenment will be gratefully received.

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