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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?

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Abigail12 · 22/03/2016 21:33

Definitely lounge, sitting/living room sounds posh to me! Breakfast lunch and dinner (or tea if the notion takes me) and we have pudding, which can be anything - cake, yoghurt, ice cream, fruit.

Abigail12 · 22/03/2016 21:37

Also we say couch, hate the word sofa! Just curious, what does everyone call the kitchen work top? I say the counter but DH says that's weird but he calls the driveway a runway so he can't talk

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KingJoffreyLikesJaffaCakes · 22/03/2016 21:43

I don't care. What I call them can change daily.

The only thing I get Hmm about it when peeps say 'summer house' when it's clearly a shed.

YouCantCallMeBetty · 22/03/2016 21:45

Breakfast, lunch, supper (although 'tea' in front of DS's friends so I don't embarrass him)
Sitting room & sofa
Pudding
Loo

I don't think I'm posh but others might disagree a bit. I remember getting the p taken out of me at primary school for writing about 'My Cycle Ride' when asked what we did in the holidays. Apparently 'bike' was where I should have pitched it Confused

acasualobserver · 22/03/2016 21:49

Some genuinely upsetting petit bourgeois solecisms in this thread. I'm going to have to lie down for a little.

MissingPanda · 22/03/2016 21:51

Living room
Breakfast, dinner, tea
Don't care so long as you give me some Grin

icarusandhiswings · 22/03/2016 21:54

This is the dullest " please acknowledge how middle class I am" post I've seen for a long time.

(Yawns and rings bell for the dogs to let out).

RortyCrankle · 22/03/2016 22:08

Sitting room
Breakfast, lunch, dinner
Pudding
Sofa
Napkin
Lavatory or loo
What (not pardon)
Scent (not perfume)

fruitpastille · 22/03/2016 23:18

It's a class thing
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_and_non-U_English

nancy75 · 22/03/2016 23:25

The class list is not like anything I recognise, my nan who was the most working class cockney (a proper one) used half the words on the U list, there is not a chance in hell that she upper class!

Lanark2 · 22/03/2016 23:27

Typical.

queenMab99 · 22/03/2016 23:32

Back yard not patio
breakfast dinner tea
lavatory
living room/ backroom / front room or 'in yonder'
wash house not utility room

queenMab99 · 22/03/2016 23:32

The only way is Northern!

SmillasSenseOfSnow · 22/03/2016 23:42

Back yard not patio

Surely a patio is something you have in a back garden/yard, not the back garden/yard itself?

Seren85 · 23/03/2016 00:21

Front room/house (only ever heard the second in my family though)
Breakfast -lunch (work)/dinner (home)- tea (home)/dinner (out if nicer thanks nandos)
Afters

The kitchen has worktops which are commonly referred to as "the side".

ExitPursuedByABear · 23/03/2016 07:49

Aye. There's nothing like a good old North/South Them/Us thread.

Pyjamaramadrama · 23/03/2016 09:38

Some people are so uptight. It's a bit of fun. I've no idea what's northern/southern, upper/lower class.

It's just a discussion I always have with dh. He calls our living room a lounge and when I ask what he wants for dinner he assumes I mean lunch.

I'm working class anyway so couldn't give a toss.

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Pyjamaramadrama · 23/03/2016 09:40

I call the kitchen tops the side too.

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Beth2511 · 23/03/2016 09:43

Lounge
Breakfast lunch dinner
Pudding

Beth2511 · 23/03/2016 09:44

I spent my life living down south but with very northern parents!

BunnyTyler · 23/03/2016 13:45

Nancy, in the spiel under the lists it said the upper class/working class tend to use the same words - it's only the social climbing middle classes that use the more pretentious words Wink

To be honest, I think it was also a largely north/south divide, but with the Internet and more movement between areas than in older times the language has become quite mixed for most people.

CremeEggThief · 23/03/2016 13:50

Sitting room, although living room is acceptable, especially if it's a sitting room and dining room combined.
Breakfast/lunch/ dinner or tea, depending on time of day. Usually dinner. Supper is a light meal or snack after about 8 p.m.
Dessert or pudding.
Sofa.
Napkin.

CremeEggThief · 23/03/2016 13:51

Work tops are counters here.

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