 Perhaps coming from the fact one would be seen as foolish going down a mine with a Scotch Divvy when there are safer lamps available, like the Geordie, or the Davy.The Geordie word "netty", meaning a toilet and place of need and necessity for relief or bathroom, has an uncertain origin, though some have theorised that it may come from slang used by Roman soldiers on Hadrian's Wall, which may have later become "gabinetti" in the "Romanic" Italian language (such as in the Westoe Netty, the subject of a famous painting from Bob Olley).However, "gabbinetto" is the Modern Italian diminutive of "gabbia", which actually derives from the Latin "cavea" ("hollow", "cavity", "enclosure"), the root of the loanwords that became the Modern English "cave", "cage", and "gaol".