To think my in-laws' ways are not normal?

[Snoot]

Apparently I am wrong and they are normal in many ways, I just find them odd! A selection from this weekend:

Stewed fruit, served for pudding, is commonly served with weetabix on top if people are still hungry

Scone is pronounced like stone

A footstall is not a puff but a poof-ay

Spag bol sauce contains no garlic, salt, pepper, or noticeable tomatoes but contains kidney beans and is served with ketchup

I could go on!

I have just sold our lovely old chaise so yep, we are out there!

I own a chaise longue, it's upholstered in pink velvet and I love it. It rests in my boudoir.

Just about everyone in Florida has a chaise longue on the patio. I do persist in calling it a chaise longue. DH just calls it the lounger and we fight over it, although not right now because it is way too hot to be outside.

Interestingly, I say toona but tewsday. No idea why.

I bet we all pronounce this the same:

My good friend and I, both having grown up in Georgia have created a peach trifle in honor of the state fruit: Georgia Peach Trifle. We use pound cake, fresh peaches, peach schnapps (unless making it for young ones), custard, and top it with whipped cream. No jello/jelly, but sometimes we add some raspberry jam. Highly recommended.

Wow! I didn't know we had a symbol.

And while it might be tooonah here, Tuesday is Tewsday.

And raspberries are my all time favourite fruit, so if I use them for Amberleaf's trifle I might, just might, be tempted to try it myself.

My friend from Bedfordshire says Tuth or even T'th for tooth. How weird is that?!

I have 3 dressing gowns; a light cotton one for summer, a thicker warm one for winter, a silk sexy one for, er, shagging. I have 2 bathrobes in thick or thin towel. I also have a bathrobe and a dressing gown at my mums and a bathrobe at Pils for when we stay. DH just has 2 bathrobes at home and 1 at my mums and 1 at Pils. i have only just realised how deranged we sound

I am very interested in that peach trifle! I've always fancied a peach cobbler, not entirely sure what one is but it sounds delicious!

I think we have owned 3 different chaise longues, DH finds them irresistible but then they never get used and I get rid of them at the earliest opportunity. Look on your local freecycle, they'll be one soon enough!

Plimsolls- known as gutties around these parts.

chaise lounges and loungers are different things though. A chaise lounge is like a sofa with just one arm and a swoopy sort of back to be found in a formal sort of room whereas a lounger is a chair with built in footrest and reclined back often arranged around a pool.

Scone, your trifle sounds like a proper trifle to me. Nice sponge soaked in fruit juice of booze, lots of fresh fruit, home made custard and whipped cream. Yummy. Trifle made with tinned fruit and jelly is an abomination

Amazed that Florida's porches are populated with chaise longues....seems a bit weird somehow. Scone are you confusing them with sun loungers which are very different indeed?

littlemog Mine looks much like these, except it is older and white. Note spelling.

www.homeinfatuation.com/cat/Outdoor-Furniture-O-W-Lee-Chaise-Lounges.cfm

Those are not chaise longues! this is a chaise longues. What you have there (above!) is a lounger!

Forgive plural :-)

Sorry Scone those are not chaise longues.

<a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=www.hampshirebarninteriors.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/silver-hampshire-chaise-longue2.jpg&imgrefurl=www.hampshirebarninteriors.co.uk/&h=615&w=920&sz=52&tbnid=Bs59kccP2DllaM:&tbnh=91&tbnw=136&zoom=1&usg=__WuLlNSHhMzrDqHNun-2KMC7jQeA=&docid=mgNPSfhTtPmY4M&sa=X&ei=vrkOUsoZkOGLAqHGgWA&ved=0CDkQ9QEwAQ&dur=403" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this is a chaise.

<a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=www.retroeurope.com/furniture/le-corbusier-lc4-daybed_01.jpg&imgrefurl=www.retroeurope.com/furniture/lc4-le-corbusier-daybed.html&h=371&w=631&sz=22&tbnid=Nk7CRjmeFjLapM:&tbnh=66&tbnw=112&zoom=1&usg=___VUdnrQHgEmuwwwbC58MYiIXz_g=&docid=uIM_4sV5A0lAUM&sa=X&ei=BroOUou1FsiWyAH89IFw&ved=0CC4Q9QEwAA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this is a day bed and so is <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=iconicinteriors.com/images/uploads/products/barcelona_daybed_001.jpg&imgrefurl=iconicinteriors.com/designer_furniture/category/chaise_longues/the_barcelona_day_bed/&h=382&w=603&sz=29&tbnid=nQvqEIX48uQBBM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=142&zoom=1&usg=__3pmt9YqQVWgFEFzMEYee8tI1hao=&docid=ZdscQm0Nf4tqHM&sa=X&ei=M7oOUru-G6ThyQGFroEw&ved=0CE4Q9QEwAg&dur=1365" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this

i would defo say yours is a lounger - no matter what it calls itself! :)

I have done further research. Evidently, in American English, the term covers pretty much any sort of long chair, from the fully upholstered indoor versions (my grandmother had one that she called her "Louis Seize Chaise Longue" ) to the outdoor ones, like the wrought iron one I have. But in British English, the definition is much narrower as in Snoot's link.

British English
US English

A bit like the word "fanny," different meanings depending on which side of the pond you are on.

I do feel a bit disloyal by revealing that many, if not most, of my compatriots think that "chaise lounge" is an ok thing to say, whatever they are referring to.

Every day's a learning day! Thank you for that, Scone, I shall be much more prepared for my next trip to the US. Who knew? . Now, about that cobbler...

Well maybe as the actual thing is so different from the origin of actual chaise longues then it's only right the words to describe the thing are also pronounced differently. So therefore they have become a different thing entirely. So maybe lounge is the right pronunciation for it, if that makes sense.

This is very close to my grandmother's recipe that we use in our family. It is probably the most common type of peach cobbler in the South. We serve it with vanilla ice cream on top of the warm cobbler.

Southern Peach Cobbler

Oh, bless you, Scone, I was teasing really but I'm very grateful, I've always wondered, I'll give it a go! Thank you

Hugless another Fifer here - you could also have Kilquonquhar, pronounced kin-uch-ur...

Snoot Happy to share it. It is really good, but very sweet. I am not much of a cook (DH is the cook in our family), but I usually do the desserts. And I make this one often because everyone loves it. Enjoy!

Has anyone mentioned Milngavie?

Hugless You are quite near me. I did hear a new pronounciation of Ballingry though, from a family member with pretentions -

Bal-in-gary!