Couperwife Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 ooooh, just to confuse everyone (and me - which really doesnt take much) we have breakfast, dinner at dinner time and tea when we get home from work. I have lunch at school cos it fits in the timetable better than dinner does. (dinner has 6 letters see, and lunch only has 5, and there are only 5 days in a week - get it? - my dad started that when I was 11.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 we are breakfast, dinner and tea people. Teatime is our evening meal. We also have a sofa and not a couch or settee and we call the room where the tv/sofa is the front room and not the living room !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theherd123 Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 and we call the room where the tv/sofa is the front room and not the living room !! I presume your 'front room' is at the front of your house! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Looney Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 and we call the room where the tv/sofa is the front room and not the living room !! I presume your 'front room' is at the front of your house! We call the front room the front room too! At my parent's house the room next to their front room is either called "next door" if they are in the front room or the kitchen or is called "the back room". Quite simple really! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeckyBoo Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 we have breakfast lunch and dinner, the children have breakfast (bok smallest boy calls it) lunch and tea, we have a front room and an "other room" which are actually both the same room depending on where you are in the house., neither or them are the lounge. We have a sofa not a settee or a couch, and very shortly, if they don't quieten down I will have a child free house Mrs B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cate in NZ Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Just catching up with this and I do think that brain is beginning to hurt , but I have breakfast, lunch and dinner, unless it's a weekend when I tend to merge breakfast and lunch into brunch. I rarely have supper but I agree that's a late night snack before bed and tea is a light, uncooked meal served in the afternoon (cucumber sandwhiches and scones sort of a thing, served with earl grey and bone china ). If some of you define lunch as an uncooked mid day meal, then how do you describe Sunday lunch, which surely is traditionally a roast and all the trimmings Oh, and geographically I was born in the South, moved to the North West at 3, had a healthy dollop of Wales thrown in in my early teens and now I'm back in the South. No wonder my meals are confused What was this thread about again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 See to call it a front room implies you are posh as it means you have more than one room. you have a parlour as well. My parents (house I grew up in) main room is at the back so itr had to be living room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helly Welly Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Hi all - this is Helly Welly's OH (Russell Brussell), Can I just say, I have breakfast, elevenses, lunch, tea, dinner, supper, and any other type of meal or snack that I can fit in during the day. I am lucky enough to be blessed with a high metabolism so I can eat as much food as I like....and I usually do !! Re - the room debate, it has to be Living Room in our house, 'cos ours has a front AND a back wall, so it would end up being the frontback room ! Couch, settee, or sofa.....sofa has it.....couch implies we're potatoes, and settee sounds a bit 70's. If you need any other language advice, please don't ask........!! Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Hey, this is really great! As I said before, we have breakfast, dinner and tea in that order. Mind you, I can relate to Helly Welly's OH as I do graze during the day. We have a living room, and then a 'sitting room' where we take any posh visitors that we have (that would be the wife's friends). Both are front rooms as the back is the kitchen and where the house joins onto next door (which is a holiday home for some wealthy folk). The garden is at the side! The posh settee is in the sitting room. There are chairs and a scabby two seater something in the living room, but I haven't seen it for months as it's hidden under piles of stuff. In fact most of our furniture is hidden under stuff - apart from the posh things in the sitting room (which is only there to make an impression). And even in there things get covered with the newspapers that I collect off the train when I go to London and back each Tuesday/Wednesday. If you are ever on the Lynn to London train, I'm the one collecting up the newspapers. Having read them, they go into the Eglu and then into the compost. We are pretty common and proud of it. No, thats not right, I am common and proud of it - OH is most definately not common at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 so you dont have any posh friends then richard?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Looney Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 If you are ever on the Lynn to London train, I'm the one collecting up the newspapers. Having read them, they go into the Eglu and then into the compost. . OOoh, I get the Lynn - London train.....but only between Ely and Cambridge! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beach chick Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 well now, what we call the living room my parents would call the drawing room!!! (there's posh! my mum's a dreadful s"Ooops, word censored!"). we have sofas, as opposed to couches or settees. and the table where we eat which is in the kitchen is the dining table (dunno why, there isnt another table in the room!) also we have 'the loo' rather than 'the toilet' (again, it was a lavatory in my parents' era...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 We have a sofa and a sitting room. What do you call that thing in the bathroom? Toilet or loo at our house. Late MIL referred to it as the Lavatoire. My Dad used to call it the Khazi. (?sp) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Man Banned Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 we have a loo, a front room and a sofa We have breakfast (that I hardly ever eat) lunch and tea, well I say we..... Joe always used to have this but I grew up with evening meal being my tea - we've swopped over the years so I went "posher" and he came down to my level A xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 settee in the sitting room. Definitely toilet. Definitely bottom not bum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheilaz Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Lavatory. (or bog if OH ) ...you know you're old when you say thruppence, or tuppence, and son says "I hate it when you say that" & you say "say what?" and he says "Thruppence, thruppence, what's that?....it's 3 p" Pee, I say, pee! Thruppence is better..... ...to be continued. PS. Settee, sittingroom, and luncheon of course, dinner in the evening. Lots to say about tea..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Man Banned Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Definitely bottom not bum. I but I love the phrase "....went bum over boob.." far nicer than the other phrase! A xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted June 28, 2007 Author Share Posted June 28, 2007 I think I should rename this topic It's given me a good giggle this morning When I was growing up we used to have a front room, settee, dinner and tea - but I've clawed my way up the greasy pole ever so slightly and now have lounge, sofa, lunch and dinner I have one sister who still has dinner/tea etc. but the other sister has changed to lunch/dinner as well. I've always lived in this area so no excuse really I obviouslt think I'm better than I am Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 Definitely bottom not bum. I but I love the phrase "....went bum over boob.." far nicer than the other phrase! A xx Him Indoors rather scientifically says "apex over base" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 We have a sofa in the sitting room which is at the back of the house. At the old house it was at the front but it was still a sitting room because we sat in it . The lavatory is a "Cloakroom" even though there aren't any cloaks in it but is also the loo . We have breakfast, lunch and dinner. I definitely have a bum rather than a bottom though . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starboyhull Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 We have either sofa or settee (depending on who you talk to), We have a living room and bathroom or toilet........Gotta be breakfast, lunch and dinner....Although a lot of hull people have breakfast, dinner and tea..... Hull has to have the worst accent of all too lol *cringes* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 I can't understand the Hull accent at all. I met someone from 'ool' ('oo' as in look) once and she had to tell me where she came from at least 4 times and I still couldn't understand! It's remained a joke amongst us 25 years later! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 We have breakfast, lunch and tea At school some children have lunch (sandwiches) and the others have dinners (school meals) We have settees/sofas, in our lounge/front room/living room depends on the mood and we have a loo I would love a cloakroom for our cloaks though We also have bottoms not b***, I can't even type that word We also wear pants and not knickers PS Starboyhull Hull is not the worst accent, have you heard Brummies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 We also wear pants and not knickers Oh yes! I forgot that one. I'm with you there Debs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 Same here - BIG pants . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
