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

[OonaStubbs]

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?

But it’s not weird at all , you draw water from a well, it’s the same concept or would have been originally.

Would you not ask a guest how they take their tea/coffee?

No 🙂 I'd ask how they have it. I might ask if they take/have/like milk and sugar.

Could be that or inverted snobbery on your part.
I don't know if the person who asked you was Scottish or not but it's customary to be asked in Scotland "Will you take a cup of tea/bowl of porridge?" or "How do you take your tea/porridge?" It certainly isn't a posh thing here.

Notice your use of 'take' milk or sugar?

Different people/communities have their own idiolects/sociolects , and use different words and phrases - ours obviously have some differences 🙂👍

Not comprehensive enough.
Doesn't cover the mustard (French and English), horse radish sauce, red current jelly or the mint sauce, for example.

They’re only words. I might laugh but it wouldn’t bother me.

I think it is neither posh nor pretentious. I don't say it myself, but if it is a phrase you have grown up with it will be perfectly normal.

Frankly - I think it is extremely judgemental to assume people are posh or pretentious just because they use language that is different to that to which you are used.

Yes, I do understand the word condiments.

But I rarely use the word condiments.

I don't think there are a lot of times when I need to refer to that whole class of things in it's entirety.

I think I might even use the words salt and pepper to describe all of the above. If I asked my kids "can you put the salt and pepper out, please," I would expect them to include appropriate sauces for the meal we were having.

Yeah me too it's excellent!

I think it needs a revival. Might start using it at work.

I think drawing a bath is less common to say than drawing the curtains - but I don’t hear that very much either anymore. Is it pretentious or old fashioned to say “bless you” for sneezing, as a PP mentioned? I thought it was just polite!

I think it’s charming. I had a flatmate once who would say ‘I don’t drink coffee, I only take tea.’ Used to make me smile as we were about 19 and he wasn’t posh in the least.

I say, in a raised-eyebrow sort of way, ‘accoutrements’. It covers everything from salt and pepper to all the stuff you need for everything from a chilli with baked potatoes to an eastern Mediterranean or Indian meal, like jalapeños, harissa, chutney/pickles, yoghurt …

We draw curtains and baths in this house, we also use condiments with meals... but we do not offer cups of mugs of tea, due to my mother, we offer a dish of tea. I think that this harks back to times when cups did not have handles...

And, linen is put away in the press... but then she was Irish, and in service, which I think made a difference.

This is a good strategy.

Condiments is a lumpen, transactional word.

Accoutrements is deliberately pretentious and more fun.

If the water came from a well, I'd say draw too

Watch out, that chip on your shoulder is going to hurt you.

I got it from a film (forget the title, Richard Gere), where he talks about steak tartare and muses on how it's strange how one only ever uses the word 'accoutrements' in relation to that.
I've never had steak tartare, so I don't know what its specific accoutrements are, but I liked the idea and the word

I think it’s old fashioned and yes slightly pretentious. Mind you as most people have a shower these days it’s not something you hear much!

What's weird is people not taking 5 seconds to Google the origin of a word or phrase before they dismiss it a weird.

I never use the term but I did know it's an old fashioned word and didn't mean someone drawing a picture of a bath or something.

It’s running or pouring in our house

But they mean completely different things. 'Accoutrements' means equipment, accessories, trappings. If you were eating a plate of fruits de mer, you'd be supplied with various accoutrements to let you crack crab or lobster claws and winkle out the meat etc. If you were serving caviar, the correct accoutrements would be non-metallic spoons.

I mean, it might be used in a very general way to include garnishes or sauces to go with a particular dish, but the word itself doesn't mean the same as condiments.

I mean, it might be used in a very general way to include garnishes or sauces to go with a particular dish,
Which is precisely how I use it.
In any case, it's not that deep, it's just a little thing I say for a laugh.