Need a little help with your language please

[giantangryrooster]

I'm Scandinavian, I try my best with your language, but am still bewildered about livingrooms/dens, toilets/loos etc .

But can any of you enlighten me on two words?

Where I'm from we call it summer house, what do you call it... Cottage, holiday home, second home and what is the difference?

Secondly wood/forrest, is a wood smaller? How small, then?
Do you call it wood or woods?

Just confused can you help, please.

[giantangryrooster]

Thank you ivampire I'm afraid you lost me with the dyed haddock. You dye haddock? My mind is blown .

As for user1495 and bananamix didn't think I could get any more confused, thank you 😂.

[Spam88]

@Kalifa it just means 'and more' really but with a bit more oomph.

A cottage is a particular type of building. Generally old and small, but I've stayed in some very large cottages too...so I guess it's the style of building rather than size.

Holiday home is a generic term for a second place you own, regardless of the type of building it is.

I would have called yours a lodge actually, just to add another word to the mix😂

And, fwiw, I would use wood and forest interchangeably.

[iVampire]

‘ May I throw "covert" into the mix? Very small wooded area, usually maintained as shelter for game, particularly pheasants.’

Only if you point out that sometimes the ‘t’ is silent. Or perhaps just bitten off by some huntin’ fishin’ shootin’ types?

[beebeeduck]

There's also a 'frith' - land on the edge of a woodland.

[BeBesideTheSea]

Your holiday home has sea views and woods behind it.

You spend your summers in your beach chalet, which backs on to a wood.

Many ways to say the same thing. But “summer house” = shed (unless reading Scandi literature / watching Scandi film or TV)

[Kalifa]

Sparklfairy Spam88. thank you!

[TheProvincialLady]

A wood is ancient woodland whereas a forest has been planted at some point - albeit possibly hundreds of years ago.

In my head, at least.

[iVampire]

We have a National Forest, which is new planting aimed at restoring some of the wooded areas of yore and generally increasing the number of trees. And we have a National Arboretum, which is a commemorative site where trees are planted, principally but not exclusively for fallen military personnel and where the SANDS commemorative garden is.

The national body which encourages and supports arboriculture is the Woodlands Trust, but there is also a Forestry Commission which is the branch (sorry) of government or quango which deals with trees

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[totallyyesno]

what I'm trying to say is that it is tended to as in trees are sometimes being cut down if not healthy, but left to rot for wildlife preservation.

Tended makes perfect sense. Sorry, when you said "tented" before I was imagining some sort of canopy over the forest.

[nocoolnamesleft]

I disagree with fifthtimelucky. Woods can definitely be scarier than forests. Think of Mirkwood in Lord of the Rings.

[DGRossetti]

I have a vague memory that a forest has a river running through it ? But all words can shift in meaning, and I think these days most people assume a forest is a "big woods"

[TheNoodlesIncident]

I would have called yours a lodge actually

Noooooo, a lodge is a gatekeeper's house, the ones built by the gates of the manor for the gatekeeper to live in. This is a lodge:

[SamanthaJayne4]

I was thinking lodge as well. We stayed in a lodge in Scotland and it looked similar to OP's photo. I say toilet unless I'm trying to be extra polite. I asked where the cloakroom was in a posh place and was directed to an actual cloakroom (for coats etc), not a toilet in sight.

[wowfudge]

Lodge as in holiday lodge is okay - isn't that what Center Parcs call their accommodation? Chapel en-le-Frith is just up the road from me.

[wetotter]

Don't beavers live in lodges?

[derxa]

mutton (mouton) -sheep

[derxa]

Never use 'toilet' OP, it's infra dig
I'd also add 'croft' and 'but and ben'

[giantangryrooster]

derxa funny, toilet is the nice word in my language.

I'm glad that even you don't seem to agree on all these words .

[giantangryrooster]

Btw I'm not a beaver.

[SeasideArms]

Am I the only one who uses cottage to mean a small, old, traditional home. Probably quite cosy. Possibly with a thatched roof. Yes, you could have a holiday cottage, but it should still fit the above description. I am aware in the USA this isn't the case.....

[TwistyHair]

I’d call your holiday home a chalet. I always thought that a forest had to be owned by the king. And a wood was for common use. Back when people lived off the land. So you could hunt in a wood if you were a commoner but only the king could hunt in a forest.

[TwistyHair]

Also, I never say bathroom. Sounds so prim/uptight. Always toilet or loo.

[Weedsnseeds1]

Chicken used to be called pullet aka poulet.
Now the word is used only for young laying hens, not sure why the switch to chicken for the meat, but kept the words for other species.
I would call that building a chalet.
Is there any possibility your wood is actually a shrubbery?

[Weedsnseeds1]

Venison was originally the meat of any hunted animal, from venor, to hunt, but came to be used for deer meat only

[Weedsnseeds1]

Rabbits weren't poor people's food in medieval times, they were bloody expensive and farmed in Warren's, they were called coney - a word that lives on in the fur trade and amongst rabbit fanciers.
There is no old English word for rabbit as they weren't really a "wild" animal until much later on.