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How often does gairaigo get bikago?

[おトイレ](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AC) is mentioned
by Wiktionary, and Wikipedia
[mentions](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorific_speech_in_Japanese#Prefix_usage)
it being used ironically in o-kokakōra, but I haven't come across any others.

One case where its absence is noticeable is referring to someone else's
partner as a パートナー without an お before it (or a さん afterwards, for that
matter)

Are there any words other than トイレ that often get お (apart from in the speech
of teenage girls)?
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loanwords bikago
How often does gairaigo （外来語） get bikago （美化語）?
Some people use
[おコーヒー](http://www.google.com/search?q=%22%E3%81%8A%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%92%E3%83%BC%22&oq=%22%E3%81%8A%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%92%E3%83%BC%22).
Both おトイレ and おコーヒー sound like words used in a certain idiolect to me, and
their use is not limited to teenage girls, but I do not know exactly what kind
of people use these words.
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おタバコ is heard all the time when restaurant staff asks you if you need a seat
where you can smoke.

> おタバコはお吸いになりますか Do you smoke?

おビール, おソース, おタオル I've heard as well, but less often.

I would say that 美化語 on 外来語 is not a phenomenon correlated with teenage girls,
on the contrary. It strikes me as something that mainly elder women say when
trying to sound elegant, although that is an obvious generalization.
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Bikago does not seem to have much relation with gairaigo. I think what you
really meant is "how often are gairaigo used as **euphemism**?" From your
examples, I feel that. And if that is your question, I think the answer is,
quite often.
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