It’s frigging BREAD!!!

[MrsA2015]

I have a friend that refers to sliced bread as “toast” it’s starting to REALLY get on my nerves. Born and bred in England with absolutely no issues with the English language but can not distinguish between sliced bread and the end result of it being toasted being TWO DIFFERENT BLOODY THINGS.

“I had two toasts for breakfast”
“I have cheese toasts” (instead of cheese sandwiches).

Aaaaaaaaaarghhhh ffs , no amount of addressing it has made a difference in 15 poxy years.

Surely it causes some confusion sometimes though? If she asked a a cheese toasts in a cafe surely they would bring her cheese on toast not a cheese sandwich?

I don't think there's anything wrong with calling the toilet the bathroom though 🤷🏼

Definitely not eccentric or attention seeking just very irritatingly WRONG also says “borrowed” in place of “lend” but I’ve let that one slide.

Not quite on the same level of irritating, but I used to have a friend who would talk about a 'pair of bras' meaning a bra.

Her reasoning was that as it had two cups it was a pair, in the same way that knickers have two leg holes and you call them a 'pair' of knickers.

Ontop of that she does the whole posting her daily meals thing so I’m subjected to it EVERY DAY

[grin]@iamtheoneandonly as well for raw toast

Raw toast. Oh god

And now @nightshifter born and toast in England.

I had no expectations of this thread bread but I'm glad I clicked on it.

Have you insisted she reads the packet?

And what does she call cheese on toast, if a cheese sandwich is cheese toasts?

You might have to defriend and block.

also says “borrowed” in place of “lend” but I’ve let that one slide
as it's a lot more confusing, I wouldn't!

Any square sandwich-bread in this house will ONLY be called raw toast from now on. Unless it is actually toasted and it becomes a toasted toast.

Raw tast is a winner.

If she had a shop sandwich, say an M&S prawn mayo, would that be prawn toasts? How bonkers. And, yes, annoying.

Oh well. You can't argue with stupid can you?

My son calls bread soft toast but he is 7 with sen and memory isn't his thing he has on occasion asked for warm bread which means toast 🙄 we are working on this

Your friend should come here we decifer and correct daily

@janicewebster I just couldn’t get through with the difference in meanings, felt like a nagging English teacher after a while.

Any square sandwich-bread in this house will ONLY be called raw toast from now on. Unless it is actually toasted and it becomes a toasted toast

Wouldn’t it be cooked raw bread?

Or technically raw cooked bread, or cooked cooked bread

Doesn’t seem to have issues with sandwich orders, just simple uses toast(S) as a universal word for sliced bread

cooked bread raw toast, so raw toast for short

yeah, that works

My DGD aged 4 asked for a boily egg with toast but not Cooked just cold ( she meant bread and butter)

Toasted toast is Crunchy toast (according to my 3 year old)
Untoasted is “just bread”.

I lived in a country where they had only recently started having toast but referred to it as dried bread. I felt slighted every time someone talked about it - no I don't like 'dried bread' I like lovely warm toasty toast with lashings of butter and honey thank you very much.

@Elieza Rip my knitting made me laugh even more than the toast 😂😂 tbf toast is pretty bizarre. What absolute genius took a bite of bread and was then like ‘cook it again!’ 😂😂😂

I have a friend who does this. It drives me up the wall. I used to think she thought it was cute or made her feel special having her special words. She does other mispronunciations and insists on saying piss-arre to rhyme with bizarre instead of pizza.

I used to pull her up on it because I find it so irritating. I think it's purposely done and she gets a kick out of being irritating though.

Hmmmm, is your friend a large black rabbit and does she have a little kind of stuffed sack-man as her daily carer?

Someone at my old workplace used to call the toilet the bathroom. "Just going to the bathroom, be right back." There were no baths at that workplace, and there aren't any shower rooms either.

Americans do this. My Granny when in a restaurant or whatever and asking a male staff member for the toilets used to say where's the wash hand basin! As she was too embarrassed to say toilet in front of a man!