Different words to mean the same thing

[Ginger1982]

Bought DS some slippers. DH insists on calling them house shoes. He would also call a dressing gown a house coat.

Do you and your DH have different words to mean the same thing?

I've always for some reason called the TV remote the Text. My dd calls it that because I do.

I must admit I've never heard of house shoes. Although I suppose it does make sense

Never heard of calling it the text!

My mil has 'housecoats'. Ginger

She has some very old-fashioned turns of phrase. She says pail & spade where I would say bucket and spade, says sweet instead of pudding and calls a dress a frock. There are probably many more that I just don't notice anymore.

Slippers? House shoes?? They're baffies

Lol, I would say sweet Random 😆

We use some things interchangeably at home to mean the same thing - sofa/setee, dinner/tea, pudding/sweet, serviette/napkin, dish/bowl. But we all wear dressing gowns. We don't do lounge/front room as ours is at the back of the house, but it is sometimes a sitting room.

Reminds me of the time I bought h a dressing gown and his mum was confused. They just don’t have them where he is from so I called it a housecoat - tbh it was the best thing I could come up with in his language.

Anyway I digress we have a wireless in this house. And a fish slice.

My husband occasionally forgets himself and calls the sitting room the ‘drawing room’ because he was brung up proper, like.

It's called text as it was former Teletext.

We have a hoover (even though it was made by Dyson). The remote control is the doofer, which is from DH's family lingo, as is bunker for the kitchen worktop. We also have quite heated debate over whether its 'toasted' or 'roasted' cheese it's clearly toasted as it's cooked under the grill not in the oven.

DH's family call pushchairs 'trolleys', which confused me the first couple of times.

We had a bit of a fart/pump dichotomy for a while but DH has lost that one.

Just noticed what an odd name dressing gown is.

My friend "draws" a bath

My grandma and great aunty used to call their trousers "slacks".

Slacks were casual trousers ie not part of a suit.

My ex used to call the pram a trolley, too. I would tell him it's our child in there, not a sack of potatoes!

I grew up with a house coat. Now I'm older I call it a robe.
The remote control has always been the clicker.

@Ginger you would confuse my children with your "sweet" as much as my mil does. Every time she asks them if they'd like one they eagerly await a boiled sugar confectionary item wrapped in coloured cellophane. They are soo disappointed to be given a block of stodgy cake with a dollop of lumpy custard

Ohyesiam It's a gown to wear while you're preparing to get dressed. Seems fine to me. I'm wearing one now :D although I have been told it looks like a smoking jacket...

Only place I've heard prams/pushchairs called a trolley is Manchester area. I'm guessing it's unusual or unheard of elsewhere. My ex (from the deep wilderness of the south 😬) said that a jasper is a wasp. I've always known it to be a flea.

My mum talked about slacks and sweets I miss my mum

In a cafe the other day a friend bought a doughnut..."oh! plain, jam or creme pat.?" i asked..."custard" she replied... now for me custard is something you pour over pud, the custard inside a doughnut (or donut as I prefer to typeis creme patisserie, or creme pat for short...she said that i was daft (not disputing that,btw) and said that in England we use English words or phrases..."so what do English people call a mousse?" I wondered.
Bloody minefield, this lingo business..

These are all great!