What defines "class" in a family?

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It got me thinking as my DH would be considered WC on his own (manual work low salary, GCSE), whereas I come from a more middle class (parents went to uni, I have a master's). Our joint income is just above £100k. So my assumption is that as a family we're MC.

Joint interests are going on mini breaks, a bit outdoorsy (but no camping!), the arts, but we also like going to your average indie gig.

According to my long-gone DM (born 1918) it would depend a great deal on what you call the thing you put the car in - (garridge or garaazh) and what you call the room you sit in (lounge, sitting room, front room) - though obvs. it’d be a drawing room if you were UC or have aspirations in that direction.

She had a degree in Nancy Mitford’s ‘U and Non-U’.

I think it might come down to the downstairs dunny. My partner calls it a ‘cloakroom (privately educated from 7 - 18). I call it ‘the toilet’ or ‘the loo’ (clearly raised by wolves).

I actually thought "loo" was quite a posh term. I've noticed posh people never say toilet but often say loo.