Meet the Other Phone. Only the apps you allow.

Meet the Other Phone.
Only the apps you allow.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To think it's

106 replies

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!