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To wonder why the name needs to be said....

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Thisisnotreallymyname · 13/03/2018 17:57

A number of friends have children that go the Pre School or nursery and those are the terms they use.
However one friend has a child that goes to a Montessori nursery and she always says " just dropped ( blank) at Montessori" whereas the rest will say something like " just dropped ( blank ) at nursery " etc.
Is this usual or is it a subtle boast that they consider it superior.
Drives me mad !

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angelikacpickles · 17/03/2018 23:14

^^not.

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Notso · 17/03/2018 23:24

I've only heard of pre-school on MN. Here there's toddlers, playgroup or early entitlement, then the majority of children go on to nursery at school so everyone just says school from the age of three.

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S0upertrooper · 18/03/2018 03:04

@MotherOfWurzel "Carvery, what's a carvery?' 'Sorry, no. Just no!'

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PyongyangKipperbang · 18/03/2018 03:32

Dont know about nurseries but I also know someone who does this with their car.

Its very odd, it sounds like they are in a marriage with the car! "Just taking the Merc to Sainsburys" "We are taking the Merc to London for the day" "I'll take the Merc to get milk" I didnt know Mercs ran on milk

Definitely a boast but oddly enough they only seem to o do it with people who they judge to be either the same or above them socially/class wise. They do it to me which is v weird as I am probably the poorest person they know, I can only assume they think I am poshpoor as I sometimes wear a knacked old wax jacket (my dads from years ago!) and drive a scruffy Volvo! :o

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Clandestino · 18/03/2018 03:37

Most of our creches are called Montessori. I have no idea whether they really are that or not, DD went to school straight from being with a childminder. But you would Montessori more than creche and there's nothing boastful about it, it's just a name. I would never look at a person saying that child went to Montessori as pretentious or snobby.
Completely different from cooking something on their Aga or going shopping in their Merc.

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PyongyangKipperbang · 18/03/2018 03:55

Where I live, people don't live in XX no they live in YY borders just to try and communicate that they are living very close to the naicer neighbourhood

That happens near me.

I live in a village near a town. There is a suburb of the main town about 2 miles away. In the past ten years or so almost the entire green belt between the two has been filled with new housing. According to the council this estate is classed as being part of the suburb, so your address is supposed to be 1 Accacia Avenue, Suburb, Town. Except some people started putting 1 Accacia Aveue, Lower Village (it is down the hill!), Town instead. The local FB groups had a ball!

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Blahblahdoll · 18/03/2018 07:34

I love people who do this, it’s makes me laugh.

Maybe I’m one of them because I do say iphone but I think I would just use that term for any mobile. If I’m looking for the phone, I mean the house phone. Eg I also say hoover but ours is a Miele.

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BlurryFace · 18/03/2018 08:19

I had a coworker who did this with his BMW (his only car) and put emphasis on it too - "I drove the BMW to the beach" "I took the BMW to do the big shop the other day" "I was in the BMW when Beelzebub appeared to me in a vision" etc etc. It was quite an old slightly tatty BMW, not even kept clean. I mean fair enough, I hear they're very reliable even with umpteen miles on the clock, but it was basically an old green car.