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.

@Thecazelets

On a tangential bread-related point...Dry bread to me means stale bread. But to my MIL it is fresh bread that isn't buttered. I only found this out when she accused me of giving the dc 'dry bread' with their soup. I was outraged that she thought I was feeding them out of date food. She just meant that I hadn't buttered it first.

Please tell me I'm right and she's wrong.

Your MIL is correct!

More like 'fo pa' @Betteb

My ex-husband used to call a rug "a carpet" and it really annoyed me! That is not what carpet is!

@Thecazelets

On a tangential bread-related point...Dry bread to me means stale bread. But to my MIL it is fresh bread that isn't buttered. I only found this out when she accused me of giving the dc 'dry bread' with their soup. I was outraged that she thought I was feeding them out of date food. She just meant that I hadn't buttered it first.

Please tell me I'm right and she's wrong.

Sorry, you're wrong and she is right.

@Betteb - “faux pas” is pronounced”fo pa”.

A girl I work with believes that “faux fur” is French for “fox fur” and refuses to wear “faux fur”. She is quite vocal about this, and won’t be told otherwise. She has bern know to “lecture” one of our poor school leavers who was wear mind a fake fur teddy coat thing, which was clearly 100% synthetic.

@Thecazelets

On a tangential bread-related point...Dry bread to me means stale bread. But to my MIL it is fresh bread that isn't buttered. I only found this out when she accused me of giving the dc 'dry bread' with their soup. I was outraged that she thought I was feeding them out of date food. She just meant that I hadn't buttered it first.

Please tell me I'm right and she's wrong.

Your MIL is right.

If you order a sandwich from a shop and ask for it dry they will know not to butter the bread.

Someone in a medical Facebook group I am in said she was having difficulty going to the restroom. It was an American person with constipation but did confuse me initially - I was thinking some sort of mobility problem!

Mothership's list leaves out "Tow the line" (for toe the line). Also "Stepped foot" for "set foot".

I'm another "bathroom" person! I was brought up with it (I'm a Yorkshire / Lancashire hybrid) and told that asking for the "toilet" was impolite. So I have always asked "Where's the bathroom please?", never had a problem anywhere in the world.

Why do these sort of things bother people such?
Cripes, hope you never have a real problem!

This is such a tedious response to what is obviously a lighthearted thread that plenty of people are enjoying.

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. I do this! It's not for any reason other than I hate the word toilet! It hits the ear wrong and sounds awful imo.

I bet she says Pacific instead of specific too

Never heard of unbuttered raw toast as ‘dry’.

Tea cakes are definitely buns. Tunnocks tea cakes are not actually teacakes but they’re quite nice.

Thank you so much for that list of commonly misused phrases! I have so many questions, especially about what we would be trying to say about a person if we called them a social leopard.

We ran out of bread this morning so we had to have toast.

I am so much more upset over the borrowed/lend situation.

Devastated that I'm wrong about the dry bread!

Not telling MIL.

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. Don’t Americans call the toilet, bathroom? I remember going to BY and asking where the toilet is and the man look at me puzzled and said, “do you mean the bathroom?”

Surprised that one of the commonly misused phrases isn't rest bite (for respite). I see it everywhere

My dh's dad used to pronounce Tuna as ' Tun - a ' in a kind of weird American accent.
( He would never eat it as he thought it resembled ' cat food' ! )
There is a sliced bread called ' Toastie' so maybe she is getting confused with what is bread and what is toast?
I much prefer ' bathroom ' to toilets or loos as it just sounds nicer , especially if you need to ask where they are in a restaurant or whatever.
My mum always called her kitchen ' the kitchenette' !

Surely it’s pre-toast?
My son says bathroom but he uses lots of Americanisms, think it’s down to bloody YouTube

Maybe she only uses this so thinks that is what its called? I don't know its strange either way.

@Thecazelets

On a tangential bread-related point...Dry bread to me means stale bread. But to my MIL it is fresh bread that isn't buttered. I only found this out when she accused me of giving the dc 'dry bread' with their soup. I was outraged that she thought I was feeding them out of date food. She just meant that I hadn't buttered it first.

Please tell me I'm right and she's wrong.

Dry bread is unbuttered.

Stale bread is out of date.

I used to have a boyfriend who called crinkle cut chips 'wiggly waggly potatoes' at 30 odd years of age. I say boyfriend, it was a only few dates after that haha.