So, what do you call things?

It has taken me well over 70 years to not give a damn what people think about me.
It is so liberating.

We have a lounge, not many of those been mentioned.
2 setees , again not many of those mentioned, and a chair.
A loo and a bathroom.
Rarely use napkins / serviettes.
We would normally have breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Tea is sandwiches and cakes or scones.
If we have dinner at lunch time we have tea at dinner time.
Don't think it matters what people call things or what accent they say things in. Diversity is good.

I can't see that it matters at all, but it's been interesting.

I have a front room with a couch or sofa in it. DH has a living room and a settee.
Loo for me, toilet for him.
Breakfast, dinner, tea and supper for both of us (greedy)
Napkins for me, serviettes for him - only used for company, ditto the tablecloth.
And it's sconn for me, and brekkfast - DH says scone to rhyme with phone and brakefast.

We're both Northern, but one of us must be posh

We have a
Living Room
Conservatory
Kitchen
Artillery room (DD2 couldn't remember the name for where the washing machine lives)
3 loos
A sofa

I have been told off by DD2 for saying Garidge instead of Garaarge (I have an East London accent).

We have
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner - napkins when its special paper serviettes for everyday use

We never eat a meal sitting on the sofa or have takeaways.

Teetime, we have a ututity room for exactly the same reason.

In spite of being very Northern in that I have a bath and sit on the grass and have glass in my windows I still have a Garaarge. No reason at all for that.

Garridge for me, and that's one thing DH and I do agree on. Bath, grass and glass as well, of course, and two syllables for poor.

I have occasionally changed my pronunciation of some words because my children have told me I was saying it wrong. And then been laughed at a few years later when they had changed their minds. Fashions in speech do seem to come and go.

Sod it, I say.

We used to have a 'futility' room. Took a wall down, put in a window and now have a view of the garden.
We use various names,
Sitting room/front room
Loo/toilet
Sofa
The spare room is a mess and full of clutter but it has nice shelves with books I can't part with so we call it the library.
Lunch/Tea, Dinner when we go to a restaurant. Not forgetting snacks and brews/drinks. In the North if we ask you if you want a drink we usually mean tea or coffee, but not always .
I encourage napkins but no one but me says it and they take the Michael.
Any food spilled on your top is called a medal.

With you there jings. Remember the trend for saying 'tiss-you' instead of 'tishoo'? Ridiculous, but I think I got caught up in that one . I remember the name Susan being pronounced with a 'y' sound when I was a child, i.e. Syusan. You never hear that these days.

I have
A living room
A family room
A kitchen
And a loo, shower room and bathroom.

I eat breakfast,lunch and dinner with kitchen roll for napkins (Costco lovely big thick ones )

I say garrrridge with a nicely rolled r and skonn

I don't really care what people call things but I am fascinated by accents.

I've heard suit pronounced syuit. I think. Starting to doubt my sanity now.

I couldn't give a hoot what anyone else calls the rooms in their house.

We have:

Sofas in the sitting room (no drawing room, house not grand enough)
We never have dinner (or any other meal) in the dining room as the table in the kitchen is just as big as the one in the dining room and we never do formal dinners these days..
Paper serviettes are only used for children's parties, we use fabric napkins but I do admit to using them more than once which means we each have our own napkin rings.
We go to the loo because DH thought I was uncouth saying lavatory which is what I was brought up with.
We have a utility room but my parents had a scullery which was equivalent.
We have breakfast, lunch and dinner.

But the most important rooms in our house and the 2 studies, we can get away from each other when we want to!

Apparently I have been saying 'duvet' wrong for years. And it's hilarious. (or so they think)

I might go back to saying 'continental quilt'. That'll fox the buggers.

Sitting room with sofas. We use napkins in the dining room.... actually we do and yes, everyone I know takes the mickey out of us... we have brekker lunch and supper, and go to the loo as and when !!

Think yourselves fortunate to have such details to consider. Plenty of people, even in the UK don't have more than one meal a day to name or napkins to use.....try being homeless for a week and see how much any of that matters.

Flipping heck radicalnan, I'm sure we all know that we are very lucky, that there are people who are so much worse off than we are, but we are allowed a lighthearted but interesting thread as well

I have done the pauper thing, lived in a nurses' home in the early 60s, had to be experienced to believe it.

As long as it makes sense to most people what does it matter if we all used same words did same things what a boring world this would be . We say
Room
Don't use serviettes unless having buffet
Loo
Tea for main meal
Supper is snack befor bed
Pantry where tinned food etc stored

When we built our house, going on for fifty years ago, I planned to call the downstairs bedroom, the parlour.

Said room went through being a playroom, a bedroom (as it was supposed to be) and an occasional dining room, mostly for kids parties. I still hanker after a parlour.

Does no one else surreptitiously use their fingers instead of a napkin? Serviettes and the like, are for pubs and restaurants.

I've got some Xmas serviettes from the fifties in my sideboard. Mil gave them to me.

People in the North are more likely to have a cooked meal called tea, and some (probably retired) still have their main meal at midday and call it dinner. We dont eat til 7.30, so call it dinner, though DH gets mixed up sometimes and says dinner when he means a lunchtime snack - no breeding, you see. Confused? My dad used to call his elevenses lunch.

Otherwise, lounge, sofa, cloth napkin for practicality if I am eating in front of the TV (I'm old, I can do what I like!)

loo or toilet, not rest room unless on a leeeeisurely tour with Americans, lol, because I dont go there to rest after all.

Orangery, not 'cos I am being posh but because it is technically different from a conservatory

Front room
settee
toilet
breakfast
lunch
dinner/evening meal
serviettes

Depends which part of the country we are all from.