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My kids used a potty when they were potty training. A potty is a cunningly fashioned piece of plastic that children shit and piss into once they're big enough not to use nappies, but too small for a toilet. Calling a toilet a potty is infantilising and weird.
... Anyway that's why I think I sounds off to use that word.
My dad sometimes uses that word, and he's in his sixties. But then again, he and my mom had six kids and had kids in potty training for a long cumulative amount of time. The word just stuck I guess.