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So what do you call your main room where you would gather as a family?


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 9:03 am
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living room. why?


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 9:05 am
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Kitchen.


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 9:05 am
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over there by the telly


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 9:07 am
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Front lounge living room area place type thing

Hang on.. "gather as a family"? You bastard 😥


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 9:08 am
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Wetherspoons


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 9:09 am
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The East Wing


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 9:10 am
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The Drawing Room


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 9:12 am
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The Crib. Obviously. Erm…. homie

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Posted : 03/01/2014 9:14 am
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Very skilled to play Xbox one handed.


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 9:15 am
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Parlour


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 10:17 am
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The BIG room.


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 10:22 am
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The snug.


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 10:31 am
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It believe it goes lounge, living room, sitting room, drawing room, in ascending order of poshness. I grew up calling it the lounge (we're northern) whilst my wife's (southern) family call it the living room.


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 10:40 am
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While CFH is the real measure of u and non-u speech in these parts, there's a simple rule: if it sounds French (e.g. lounge, toilet, serviette, dessert), don't.


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 10:40 am
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I call it the living room, Mrs Pondo calls it the sitting room (and inaccurately refutes all allegations of poshness).


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 10:42 am
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Lounge.

Lots of Aussies say the "lounge room" which I find a bit weird. Especially as no-one says the "kitchen room".

Do you say sofa or settee?


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 10:49 am
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Paw, surely?


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 10:50 am
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Living or sitting room.


 
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The 'big room' in our house - we also have a smaller room that I call the snug and wife calls the playroom.


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 11:10 am
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Living room.

My OH persists in calling it the "front room", to my continual confusion as it's at the back of the house.


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 11:12 am
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Curiously, when I'm at the family home I refer to it as the lounge - as we always did growing up - but at my house it's always been the living room.

Not sure what happens when I cross out of Cumbria to effect such a change.


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 11:17 am
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My parents both came from Lancashire (although had moved down south by the time I was born)

They always call it the lounge, but the word makes me cringe and I always say living room, or front room

I always thought lounge sounded very "hyacinth bouquet" - but based on comments above maybe I'm wrong and it's just a north/ south thing


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 11:25 am
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I always thought lounge sounded very "hyacinth bouquet" - but based on comments above maybe I'm wrong and it's just a north/ south thing

Not a north/south thing, though you're right that "lounge" is an affectation. When language was a greater marker of social status (and when social status was more acutely felt), words like lounge and pardon marked one out as too aggressively aspirational.

While the idea of "speaking properly" (another affectation) has fallen from favour, for some these words will always be a social signifier.


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 11:33 am
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we call it the living room.
a lounge is in a pub/ hotel.


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 11:36 am
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The Room


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 11:38 am
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My parents both came from Lancashire ... They always call it the lounge,

I'm still in Lancashire, and it's been the living room since my grandparents' days at least. I'm not so sure it's a regional split.


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 11:39 am

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