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Pyjamaramadrama · 22/03/2016 19:49

Living room not lounge
Breakfast-lunch-dinner not breakfast-dinner-tea
Pudding not dessert

How do you say it and which ones annoy you?

OP posts:
WhataMistakeaToMakea · 22/03/2016 20:44

Front room (even if it's at the back)
Breakfast - lunch - tea
pudding....but I would ask for a dessert menu rather than a pudding one if out

doggydaft · 22/03/2016 20:45

Living room
Breakfast. Lunch. Tea.
Pudding.
Couch.
We only have dinner if we're going out.

Purplebluebird · 22/03/2016 20:49

Living room
Breakfast lunch dinner
Dessert

NeedACleverNN · 22/03/2016 20:51

Living room
Breakfast-dinner-tea
Desert

nancy75 · 22/03/2016 20:52

Sweet stuff after your dinner is called afters!

Peyia · 22/03/2016 20:52

It was a class thing, no right or wrong.

I say breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper, as I'm growing a human

I say sitting room, my husband says colouring room or the west wing.

Dontgiveaschnitzel · 22/03/2016 20:52

Living room
Breakfast dinner tea
Pudding
Sofa

Although now it's
Wohnzimmer
Frühstück Mittagessen Abendessen
Nachtisch
Sofa is still sofa

Cathster · 22/03/2016 20:53

I always get so confused with lunch/dinner/tea. A friend said they were in the area visiting family for tea time, and they would pop in. I had absolutely no idea what time that meant they would be dropping by!

Its always been breakfast/lunch/dinner for me. DH disagrees (breakfast/dinner/tea for him)

Living room not lounge

Lucylongcat · 22/03/2016 20:53

I'm with eebahgum on the hot cold divide. You eat your packed lunch at the same time as someone else eats their school dinner.

MamaLazarou · 22/03/2016 20:55

'Lounge' is so Abigail's Party.

youwouldthink · 22/03/2016 20:57

Sitting Room
Breakfast Lunch Dinner
Dessert
Sofa

Lambzig · 22/03/2016 20:58

Drawing room
Breakfast, lunch, supper if just us, dinner if guests or restaurants

Pudding
What?
Loo
Napkin

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 22/03/2016 20:58

Lounges are only to be found in hotels and airports (dearly loved and departed mil)

marshmallowpies · 22/03/2016 21:05

Some of them are changing for me as I get older: what I used to call the sitting room I usually call the living room now, but never lounge. But we don't really use it as a living room any more since we had an extension at the back, to make a big kitchen/family room, so I've started calling it 'the front room', to distinguish it from the room we actually live in. But I can't call that the living room because it has a kitchen in it.

Sofa is always a sofa, never a settee.
Meals were breakfast/lunch/supper when I was growing up, except for Sunday when the meal at lunchtime was Sunday dinner. I seem to have dropped 'supper' as an adult, though, it's breakfast/lunch/dinner.

Peyia · 22/03/2016 21:05

My post was not clear at all!!! Working class referred to the evening meal as tea and upper class said dinner.

QuerkyJo · 22/03/2016 21:09

Front room
Coffee and a fag, ours dinner., ours tea
Afters

mrstiggy · 22/03/2016 21:11

My youngest dd has a school dinner at the same time as my other two have a packed lunch. So it's lunch and dinner simultaneously. I think we mostly say dinner for the meal around noon and have tea in the evening. Apart from Sunday Dinner, which is a roast that we have at tea time on a Sunday. It's a bit confusing really, I don't know how people we invite round work out what time to arrive. Grin

Karoleann · 22/03/2016 21:15

Ahhh lunch is dinner when its hot!

So Sunday Lunch if its roast is dinner/lunch interchangeably (even though its called lunch). If its just bacon sandwiches its lunch.

We don't have supper.

Pudding is hot. Desert is cold.

Madhouse05 · 22/03/2016 21:18

Sitting room ....... a lounge is in an airport!! And yes def supper - you go out for or have people round for 'dinner' :)

0phelia · 22/03/2016 21:22

I was posh growing up, we had
Breakfast, lunch, Gouter, supper.

We had a longe with a 3 peice Suite.

I'm not posh anymore! Now I have breakfast, lunch, dinner but DP has Tea, not dinner, and we have a sofa in our only downstairs room which we fondly call "The Great Hall".

We also have a house name rather than a number, even though we live on an inner city terrace Grin

0phelia · 22/03/2016 21:22

*Lounge not longe.

Anyone have a chaise-longe?

flanjabelle · 22/03/2016 21:24

Breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Lounge
Pudding.
Sofa.

I'm from Essex.

Sallystyle · 22/03/2016 21:25

Front room (although mine is actually at the back of the house)
Breakfast, dinner and tea
Dessert

Dawndonnaagain · 22/03/2016 21:25

A lounge is not posh, nor a 3 piece suite!
It really is sitting room or drawing room.

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 22/03/2016 21:27

Lounge with a 3 piece suite = not posh at all!