servette or napkin?

[Wotzsaname]

what do you call it?

We call our meal in the evening dinner but when ds eats I call it tea because 5pm seems to early to be dinner or supper.

What's up with Nana? Is that not allowed by the etiquette police now either?

nogoes we do that..

Napkin.

Always, always, napkin.

Serviette? Bleurgh...

Napkins. All of them. Can't cope with the word serviette.

Napkins

We have a living room (was lunge when I was at home); and we sit on our sofa.

Granpdparents are definitely nana here. Hate granny and grandma just sounds too formal.

We now say breakfast, lunch and dinner. When I was little we have breakfast, dinner and tea though. Supper is after dinner, before bed. Have to say I still use the term "school dinner" however.

Oh and apparantly we have a garden room too

We call our evening meal 'tea'. I don't live in America or I'd call it supper or dinner.

And I couldn't give a fat rat's arse what is 'common' or 'working class'.

Who really has time to care about this kind of stuff?

Spawnchorus

Napkin or kitchen paper which is more commonly used here!

Napkin

expat. it wasn't about that anyway.

chill out...and keep your bold stuff down please....

MIL insists on being called Nanny or Nana. Makes my skin crawl. And she has the nerve to bang on and on to my (slightly younger) Mum about how she couldn't bear to be a 'Granny' like her because it sounds 'old'. Feel like telling her to get a grip, but of course bite my tongue.

sadly, I've started saying napkin since I read that serviette was common . I'm so common that we don't use them though!

Why does it make your skin crawl? Honest question, I just don't get it!

It makes my skin crawl because she a) thinks it's more 'genteel' (ditto for serviette and sweet) and b) she doesn't want to seem old enough to be a granny. Pathetic IMO.

TBH 'Nan' has a far stronger association to me of white hair and wrinkly support stockings anyway.

Wotz, it's a public board. I'm allowed to express whatever opinion I please so long as it's not personally insulting and yes, this is conversation and conversations evolve.

I thought Nana was an Irish term. DH called his Irish grandmother that.

Oh I see. Its not just the term its the reasons for using it. My mum is a nana because that is what her mum was to us. I could never imagine her as granny in a million years. Each to their own I suppose!

Sorry - realise that my original post is insulting to those who are happy to use Nana Should have explained reasons.

This is not a thread about class...its about which word I might use tell dc's to wipe their mucky face on!

Expat I know and I am glad you want to express on here..

if you avoid the whole thing and just say 'wipe you face' what do they use?

MrsB a paper cloth!

I try and keep the tea towel away from them!

We only have the posh napkins out when we have grown ups in to join us!

I do put my apron on sometimes....it used to be my grans and some would say it is vintage or very old.

It is lovely crisp cotton and probably late 40's - 50's style, made by Hawkins of Preston. My gran lived within the within the sound of Bow bell!

Elephants toilet roll

When did wash basin (i.e. the basins in bathrooms) become sink? Until fairly recently if someone said they had washed in the sink I would have presumed they had a house with no bathroom.
Oh, napkin, sofa, Granny, sitting room (too poor to have a drawing room), study (room in house), tea towel, pudding. But I don't go as far as calling a mirror a "looking glass"

Wotzsaname, just give 'em kitchen roll

and call me silly but how does the apron from Lancashire relate to Bow bells? Have I missed a vital link?

MsB you mentioned your apron and it made me think...(thought tangent expression)

Just don't know how she got her mits on it while she was in London! Can't ask her, as she is dead and it was one of the things she left me!

like the elephant loo roll