Is my DH demented?

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

I have seen that documentary as well. I think he probably had the finest boiler in the world and I include Canada in that.

JaneJeffer

I seem to recall that there was also footage of another elderly gentlemen who continually expressed serious concerns about alcohol, gluteus maximi, Gregory Peck* and young females

*I may possibly have misheard or misconstrued this one....

Bed linen
Bathers
Dressing gown
Quilt
Ottoman
Jim jams

Am Australian, with Scottish parents.

Sheets
Quilt cover
Pillow case
Dressing gown
PJ's
Swimmers
Undies

Aussie here. We buy the sheets etc from the manchester section at the shops.

Google Image is actually tame. This was the typical glory box / blanket box in your grandparents’ home.

As I’m in my 30s, no one I grew up with had an actual trousseau but they were still called glory boxes.

I think he probably had the finest boiler in the world and I include Canada in that.

They have no morals, and no respect for human life...

XH used to call his pants underwear. No real problem with that, but he used to also ask me to throw him a "pair of underwear", which is all kinds of wrong.

DP sniggers when I say I'm going to put my nighty on- he maintains that all bedwear is PJs. I maintain that only pyjamas are PJs and nighties encompass everything from a skimpy chemise type thing to a floor length, high-necked Victorian-style thing, by way of my preference, which is something shortish made of t-shirt material.

But they are called "a pair of underwear"

Bedclothes in the 1880s, according to WS Gilbert.

I had a friend who said "A pair of thongs", and she wasn't Australian.

pinegreen that's a camphor wood chest!! It looks very familiar!

I have one in my living room, right here, right now! (will photo)

My parents bought it, in Tanzania, in the early 60s.

Here!

Bedclothes
Quilt
Linen cupboard
Bathers
Thongs (including pair of)
Blanket box
Underwear and knickers
Dressing gown

Another Australian here, with English parents. I'm shocked to find out that the term Manchester seems to be an australianism. To be fair it is old fashioned here, most commonly heard back when the department store lifts were manned - "Third floor, Manchester department, Ladieswear..." I'm not really that old but do remember that when I was a kid. Mostly it's just bed linen now.

Glory box though - the Portishead song is my main reference for that one. Cemented my belief that it was a uk term, and the concept seemed so very old fashioned. Just googled it though and I'm wrong, it's Australian. I think I'm living in a language bubble.

In the US a chest where an unmarried woman kept her future household linens, quilts, and other traps of married life is called a hope chest in some parts, aka cedar chest (usually lined with cedar or made from cedar to ward off moths and mould) glory box and dowry chest.

But they are called "a pair of underwear"

But 'a pair of' is usually (I think always, but I haven't had my tea yet, so my brain isn't functioning properly) followed by a plural.

So
A pair of pants
A pair of shoes
A pair of parrots
A pair of clubs

Etc. So to my ear a pair of underwear sounds as wrong as:

A pair of pant
A pair of shoe
A pair of parrot
A pair of club

We love to torment our son with saying we are having dinner dinner for tea when we are having a meat and vegetables meal at about 6pm. Drives him nuts, he can't cope with the concept of tea as a meal at all, he's just not been bought up to be sufficiently working class.

Hahah I say bedclothes!!