Is my DH demented?

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

My sister calls hair straighteners 'flat irons' and it drives me mental.

@DontDribbleOnTheCarpet I'm very sorry but your husband is broken. Scottish people don't say clothe

My MIL calls it Manchester. Which, for some reason, makes me inexplicably angry.

I always say bedclothes.

@Audacity - in the 1970s it was common for people to iron their hair to get the kinks out. You laid your hair out on the ironing board, covered it with a sheet of brown paper and then ironed it.

It’s a fucking dressing gown, no matter how many times my husband argues otherwise. 😡

I used to iron my friend’s hair in the mid 80s. Best way to keep a mohican upright, most of a can of Elnett and an iron...

In Australia the bedding/linen/sheets etc is in the 'Manchester' section of the department store. Took me bloody ages to find anything til it was pointed out to me.

@chottie or if you were a dickhead in the 80s like my sister you got your drunk mate to iron it without brown paper and ended up with a half singed mullet. she looked like a pat sharp tribute act for 6 months

I say bedding but I say bathing suit for swim wear as that’s what I grew up with. Scottish, 42.

I also would use “bedding” for a duvet and pillows, the things you bed down in.

@delusionaldog
thats hilarious!

I’m American, it’s ‘sheets’. ‘Wash the sheets’, ‘change the sheets’, etc. When used like this it refers to the whole set - sheets, pillowcases, and blankets/duvet/cover.

I call it bedding (or sheets if I'm saying "could you change the sheets?")

I used to call my really thick dressing gown my smoking jacket when I put it on to go outside for a smoke in cold weather.

I just remembered I need to purchase some Hunter galoshes for the upcoming summer festivals.

Bedclothes is perfectly acceptable here (NI) or sheets used as a generic term for all bedclothes.

Yeah @chottie but she was born in 1984

poundoflard

Never heard of bed clothes, I'm in the south west. Is it a north south divide thing?

Don't think so; I'm from the southwest and call them bedclothes. Bedding is the duvet, pillows, mattress, which are clothed in duvet cover, pillowslips* and sheets. Makes perfect sense.

Also for the record: swimming costume, dressing gown, knickers

*I see no-one's put that cat among the pigeons yet

I use all the different terms.

I am a language slut.

Not all at the same time though.

I'm not that big of a slut.

Yup, bedclothes here too. But also swimmers - DH is from Australia so I let it go. After all, they call bedclothes Manchester there...

My family all say "d'you-vay" instead of "doovay".

Bed linen or sheets here. Dressing gown (housecoat makes me think of those heavy duty floral things), and swimming costume - what else would you call it?

Can somebody put ‘Manchester’ into a sentence please?

PMSL at the "private ambulances are for rich people"...

My husband is a funny one. He wears "pim jams" in bed, and has "catsup" with his chips. And regularly asks for "poo and poo toast" (one slice nutella, one slice peanut butter)

Now the frost is nearly finished it is time for the summer bedding and this means plants to me.

We need new Manchester. Let's go to the Manchester store. It's odd if, like me, that's where you live!