Is my DH demented?

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My DH calls bedding bedclothes. AIBU to think that he needs professional help?

I never see the word bedclothes used when looking online for new ones?

@Mijah, you probably call it the airing cupboard.

Do you have an immersion in the UK?

Has the OP never come back?! Too embarassed?

As we in the UK usually call trousers 'trousers', there's no need to distinguish the garment that goes underneath your trousers. If anything, we should be calling pants 'undertrousers'; but we don't, because we already have a universally-used word for them: 'pants

I grew up in the North of England. Pants were trousers. Underpants were pants you wore under your pants.

I'm here..

I still think he's demented! We are west coast of Scotland if that makes any difference.

I'd say swimming costume. Underpants makes me think of captain underpants!

I see you 'continental quilt' and raise you ...

'feather overlay'

I use the term bed clothes but when shopping for said items I look for the bedding department. My mum wears bed jackets when in hospital in bed (they cover you up without being bulky) Have never worn one myself not that old just yet

I listen to the wireless.

We always used the term inchtape instead of measuring tape. I hadn't realised it wasn't a universal term until I went into Homebase and asked for one.

Duvets were called continental quilts everywhere when they first came in. That is what it said on the box. I am not sure when it changed to duvet , maybe late 70s /early 80s.

I would say tape measure, not a measuring tape!

It's funny what you pick up. I call suncream "suntan lotion", the living room is a lounge with a suite in it, and dessert is pudding. And dinner is tea - you get asked if you want a brew or cuppa if it's the drink.

Not that I think you should be embarrassed OP

• I too thought bed clothes would mean something like bed jacket!

From Ni, I say swimsuit, bedclothes and call a duvet a quilt, housecoat and hotpress. Also tea is a drink

Oh I also call washing up liquid 'Fairy up liquid' no matter what brand it is

Do you mean the ottoman, perchance?

In Australia, the bedding box is called a Glory Box.

I think doonas are called as such because it was a brand (like Hoover/hoover). I also say undies and bed clothes, as well as swimmers or togs.

I grew up in the North of England. Pants were trousers. Underpants were pants you wore under your pants.

Wow, I've never heard of people anywhere in the UK routinely calling trousers pants. Was that what everybody in your town/region said or was it relatively localised?

Do you mean the ottoman, perchance?

In Australia, the bedding box is called a Glory Box.

Ooh, that's a new one for me. Any idea of any specific etymology for this? Either way, I probably wouldn't Google it....

Bedclothes.
Press, not hotpress.
Quilt, not duvet.
We say "clawth" for dishcloth.
I'm in Liverpool, so lots of Irish influences in my family.
Just to add, my teen DC call a house coat a "gaff cape", had me laughing for days.

I thought a glory box was something else entirely

Loving the timepiece and the fiscal assistance!

We call a bedding box/ottoman, a blanket box😊

I thought an Australian Glory Box was like a British 'bottom drawer' where a young, unmarried girl kept bed linen etc ready for marriage?

@SrSteveOskowski

Many homes have hot water cylinders. If you haven't got a gas boiler, or a multi fuel stove or coal boiler, or it is out of action, then you can heat the water in it using an electrical heating element that is inside the cylinder and called an immersion heater.

The sketch centres round the fact that energy from electricity costs about four times as much as energy from gas, and we surmise that the Irish family are either short of money, or very frugal.

If you had a cylinder that was uninsulated, or had a faulty thermostat (very dangerous) the electric (immersion) element costs about 50p an hour to run. Perhaps the family in the comedy act have one or both of these problems, or even a hot-water leak, which would be wasteful and costly. It could cost a maximum of £84 a week, though this would be rare.

If it is working properly, it heats about 60 litres of water in an hour, and turns itself off when the water is up to temperature.

Oooops, sorry, I was thinking you were an American like the comedian.

I expect you know all about it.

'suncream' = sunscreen, which my family calls sunscream because of the reaction it always provokes.

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Stockinged feet is a perfectly normal phrase.

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The immersion bit of the Des Bishop sketch is more about the very common irrational fear among Irish mammies about bankruptcy and homelessness as a result of forgetting to turn off the immersion. It's a preoccupation that people from all classes of Irish society can identify with.

Demented is not a word you should use in this way. Disrespectful to people with Dementia.

Oooops, sorry, I was thinking you were an American like the comedian.

I expect you know all about it.

I saw a 'documentary' once where an enterprising Irishman reported simply running the gas off the electricity and the electricity of the gas, thereby financially cancelling each other out and thereby reducing his entire fuel costs to zero