To think it is posh and or pretentious to say you are "drawing" a bath?

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What do you think. My DP always says this but I think it is very strange and old fashioned to say this instead of just saying you are running a bath?

Ha Ha! Does he live in Downton Abbey? I have never heard anyone say this. Yes it’s pretentious.

On the fence. It’s old fashioned - my grannie said it. Usually I fill the kettle but if it’s full, I’ll ask if it’s freshly drawn.

It's old fashioned. If he's always said it, then it's fine - it's just a word he uses. If he's just started using it, then it's pretentious!

No, it’s not pretentious neccesarily, it’s just that different people use different terms for things. Language shaming is toxic.

If it’s what he’s always said, he’s not being pretentious. Why should he change it?

This is very funny. I can imagine my great grandma saying it. She was very plummy, in that scruffy, decades-old corduroy trousers, horsey way. I might start using it myself.

It’s a bit antiquated these days, not necessarily pretentious. My PIL, long dead, used to say it.

Well it's a very old turn of phrase, kind of amusing to hear. Why would it bother you though?

Old-fashioned, not pretentious.

If one is forced to draw one’s own bath in the absence of a valet, then no, it doesn’t qualify as pretentious… 😉😊

It's how people used to say it. It amused me as a child due to the alternate meaning of the word. It's not pretentious, its just language use has changed. Why is 'run' a better word? Draw means to take water, Run means to cause it to flow.

It’s more weird than anything else. Draw a bath? Wtf

"when youve finished dear are you going to paint it?"

Even my old, posh grandad ( born in the 1900s and who used to pronounce off "orf" much to my young entertainment) didn't say this..and I know he went to a super posh boarding school too!

So I'm assuming your dh is about 150??

Who cares? I kind of like it, may start using it.

What about draw the curtains? It's the same thing-you aren't actually getting out pencils and paper to draw them. Is that pretentious too?
Most of us might now say pull the curtains and run a bath, but others might criticise those terms too.

It can’t really be that pretentious because it was to do with drawing water from a well for the bath

It’s old fashioned but I rather like it. If he’s always said it since he was little because that’s what his parents/grandparents said, then that’s not pretentious, just tradition (sung in the voice of Topol!)

Only in England is this phrase used . I think it's funny . Nobody else says draw curtains either . Everywhere else uses close curtains, run a bath .

It’s correct grammar, but I am old.

It’s not that weird. It’s just an idiom from when people had to ‘draw’ water from a well or pump or whatever, heat it and carry it to have a bath. ‘Running’ a bath dates from having hot and cold running water in a bathroom, so is much more recent.

We actually do say draw the curtains - I thought everyone did!

I rather like appearing in the door and saying haughtily to DH in a Noel Coward voice: ‘Sir’s BATH IS DRAWN’

My husband says "draw" a bath - and he's certainly not the posh one out of the two of us!

I just say "I'm going to have a bath".

We draw ours, too.

It's not a question of grammar; it's a question of vocabulary.