Is my DH demented?

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

my dear late father used to say costume to mean a ladies suit never heard anyone else say it
we say bedclothes pjs nighties and duvets

DP uses a fork and knife, while I use a knife and fork. He's wrong obviously.

My Nan used to refer to her fancy outfits as 'costumes'. As a child I was always disappointed that she never arrived dressed as Yogi Bear or something.

It'll come to us all though, dh and I try to stop ourselves saying we're going to 'tape' a TV programme but it's a losing battle!

My Nanna had costumes too. For weddings and the like.
MIL calls socks ‘stockings’.

And my teens say things like ‘would you care for a hot beverage mother?’ .

My dh says if you have socks on no shoes that you are in stocking feet !
Makes me laugh as never heard that before but he looks at me like as that is what it's called

I think 'stocking feet' is quite a normal thing to say. Although personally I'd say I was 'in my sock soles'.

I say "change the sheets" when I mean duvet covers etc.

DH takes the piss because I refer to what I wear in bed as "nightclothes"

My DH always asks me where I'd like to go for luncheon. I'm considering taking him to the vets to get him put down.

FrauleinF

Have you married a four year old??

As an aside, why is it such a thing on MN that every single difference has to be a regional thing? I understand things like Manchester and hot press etc but whether it's bedclothes or bedding? Really?

DH and I call it different things and we're in the same bloody bed!

Sorry, it just really annoys me.

It is bedclothes. Bedding is the actual quilts and pillows, bedclothes are what you put on them. Maybe I'm demented too!

@StCharlotte

Ah now - this was a lovely friendly thread 🙄

My old boss used to call his mobile phone his smartphone. Like 'oh has anyone seen my smartphone?', it made me cringe every time!

Someone I used to work with back when mobile phones were still quite new fangled and not remotely smart used to call his phone the bat phone.

Sorry, he’s correct.

MyBlueMoonbeam

I know and I'm sorry

Hangs head in shame...

ArgyMargy IIRC they call flip flops thongs. My friend got quite a surprise when she rocked up to the airport in Brisbane and a security guard told her with a smile that he liked her thongs

I can just about forgive DH for underpants - I mean, we’re not American, there’s no need to distinguish between inner and outer pants, but whatever.

I can forgive examinations, he’s only harming himself by using a four syllable word where the two syllable form would be more commonly understood.

But breakfast cereal drives me mad. It’s cereal. No one is going to think we need to buy some fucking wheat from the supermarket, so just call it cereal.

Bedding is for horses. Bedclothes is for people. Or bed linen.

Aussies call flip flops thongs, I think jandals is a kiwi thing

Eiderdown for duvet, swimming costume, and costume for a female suit. Also, my son once left me a note 'Mother I am afraid I need some fiscal assistance this week' when he was a student

My dh says if you have socks on no shoes that you are in stocking feet

Adults definitely used to say that when I was little, though I think it was "stockinged feet". I might have remembered it wrong though.

I just call the whole thing sheets as in 'changing the sheets' but I expect it's cultural as I'm not originally from the UK. Bedclothes though is 😂

DH says linen
I say bedding or sometimes bedclothes I think I've learnt that from my mum.

I wonder why the OP hasn't come back.

My DH called our DD’s bike her Pushbike. I told him the 1950’s called and wants their term back.

I feel very sorry for these husbands who are not au fait with the MN's version of acceptable English! So pleased that all you busy, busy Mummies have nothing better to worry about. I do hope you poor husbands/partners find a whole raft of terms to further annoy your little sensibilities!