Living room / Sitting room / Lounge? Sofa / Settee?

[adamadamum]

I am not sure if I am posting in the correct place, but I am curious as to what you call yours! And what does the name they give for each, say about a person? Thanks!

I have a sitting room. Because it's so tiny you can't really do anything in there but sit.

Ooh Ooh Ooh hf it's like looking in a mirror. (Actually one should say looking glass as I'm sure you know)

Drives me to distraction - at DC's school they adamantly ask for dinner money - I send in lunch money! But the people who help out in the middle of the day are ........... Lunchtime Supervisors. Ffs some consistency please.

Front room and settee.

We have breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Do you have a hall, hallway or a passage?

Shodan to my shame I have also looked up napkin as well as my DM was driving me mad correcting me when I asked for a paper napkin. "It's made of paper DD therefore it's a serviette."

Gah - I haven't had any wiping necessities whilst DM been around since I have looked it up. Am waiting, now wondering, if I should contrive a dabbing emergency.

It should be DCs' not DC's (proper pedant), never mind lunch/dinner

Oh god this keeps expanding

Napkin
Hall (doesn't that one depend on layout, though?)
Supper
Granny, Grandad, Grandma, Grandpa

tea = drink, or cucumber sandwiches and cakes at 4pm.
Midday meal = lunch

choas- invite her round for a cuppa and a slice of cake. Then jump up and say 'ooh I must get you a paper napkin asDebrettssaysit'sproperlycalled'.

I have been Musing.

Isn't supper something light, sometimes on a tray, to be eaten later in the evening? Soup, perhaps.

Having, of course, already partaken of tea at 4 (cakes, cucumber sandwiches etc) and dinner at 7 (at least 3 courses, served in the dining room, with the family silver).

And let's not forget high tea, where a full range of delicacies such as parkin, drop scones, bags of lettuce, heaps of tomatoes and lashings of ginger beer should be made available? And jugs of cream fresh from the farm?

Yep Shodan - am definitely going to mention Debrett's. Then watch her Hyacinth jaw drop.

Hello livingroomlizard (sorry just can't say that lounge word)

My thinking was Darling Children's school, but now you have me doubting my own pedanticism. Will lie awake pondering and musing about apostrophes (as if I've never done that before - I am such a sad muppet).

I say:
living room
sofa
hallway
napkin

and we have:
breakfast
lunch
dinner

although I was brought up with:
breakfast
dinner
tea
supper

Also, teacakes are flat, round bread cakes WITHOUT currents or other dried fruit in them.

By loungelizard Tue 16-Mar-10 23:30:54
It should be DCs' not DC's (proper pedant)

But should it? Because you would not write dear childrens', would you as that would be incorrect. It should be dear children's.

"My dear children's clothes were strewn across the room"

"The clothes of my dear children were strewn across the room"

I agree with Rindercella

Thank you rinders and angel.

Phew. Thought I was a goner.

On a technical point though - should we keep the true anal pedanticism for friday nights?

I lounge on my sofa & sun myself in the sun room.
DD calls it the TV lounge.

My prentious DM tries to persuade me it's the sitting room, but I'll be sticking with the above.

I am obviously suffering from class confusion . I have always said lounge. I was brought up using settee but now say sofa.

For meals I was brought up with breakfast, dinner, tea and supper (being a light snack before bed).

I now eat breakfast, lunch and dinner (or tea if I want to wind up DH )

My mother is aspirational and now has a drawing room. She has tried to introduce supper as her evening meal but gave up after the ribbing she received.

DH's family have tiffin in the afternoons, which I understand to be a colonial thing.

I say lounge and sofa. And we have a little room at the front of the house that just has tiles and a coat rack and where the buggies and shoes live. I call it a lobby because it's not a hallway (hallways are long and thin, surely) but is it really a mud room? Or is a mud room only in the country?

Or is it a "hall" but without the "way"?

Clearly I need help, here.

Sorry to throw even more confusion on this thread, but we call it 'the other room'. In which there is a sofa to sit on, unless you are sitting up at the table to eat your breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Chaos, rinders and angel. Yes, you are commpletely right and I am wrong!!!!! Serves me right for trying to be a smart arse pendant (leaves thread with tail between legs ).

( PS Am liking the name sittingroomlizard, as I, of course, have a sitting room, not a lounge )

Sitting room and sofa here, although still working on supressing lounge and settee from DH. I probably ought to be more tolerant - he is the one who slouches sits on it.

Front room, sofa,

Napkin thing never occurs as we use a "bit of kitchen roll"

I believe that the words from French, (lounge, serviette etc) are considered posh by non-posh people, but real posh people know that to use them just makes you sound even less posh than you really are.

Sitting or living room and sofa. Never lounge unless you are in an hotel. And NEVER settee!

OK here we go-

Living room
Sofa
Hall(and upstairs landing)
Napkin
Grandma and Grandpa(exDP's are Nan and Granddad though-not my choice!)
Breakfast lunch and dinner

Think I've covered all bases there.

We have a living room because it is a large multi-purpose room, not just for sitting

Sofa
Hall
Serviette (said with accent, natch, because we live in France and DH is French, but my mother says napkin and that's what I was brought up with)
Granny and Grandpa
Breakfast, lunch and dinner

To add to my Livingroom and suite I give you - 2X Granny, 1 Granpa, and 1 Grandpal.
We have brunch and tea (as in high tea). Napkins.

But we have a Hall and a BACK PASSAGE.

Napkin, Grandpa, loo, "what?" not "pardon?", "how do you do?" Grandma, dinner or supper depending on content and time, lunch.