So, what do you call things?

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.

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 !!

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

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

I steer clear of these types of threads.

Apologies and no offence intended to you Daddima I know it was intended as a light hearted thread, but seems to have touched a nerve, why should it matter what people call things or how they pronounce them?
All that U and Non U stuff of Hyacinth Bucket Nancy Mitford, for example.
GBS said it so well in "Pygmalion"
"It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him."

Moving on to food. We call eggy bread , Batman toast ( only way my son would eat it when he was little) and the powder you put in milk to make a milkshake ' liquick spindle' . My GDs call golden syrup, carmickla !!
We also have a ' Cwtch' under the stairs and a built in larder

Scone in Perthshire is pronounced Skoon.
Scones I eat are pronounced skonns.

I have a

Kitchen
Living room where I sit on a sofa or sometimes a settee, just for the variety
Conservatory (as a dining or sleeping in the sun room)
Bathroom
Napkins for me, serviettes for DH - no matter what they are called we need them!
Breakfast, lunch plus tea or dinner depending if it is a cold or hot meal
Also 'elevensis', anyone else have those?

Scones? Have to rhyme with phones for me but always jam before the cream .

I have a lounge too but one of my friends has a drawing room!

Do most of you use a table cloth as Harri mentioned?

We use cotton napkins but no tablecloth for all meals eaten in the kitchen but, if there are lots of us, we eat in the dining room with a table cloth but those linen effect paper ones.

That confuses me now I've thought about it.

Living room / lounge as the mood takes me
Sofa
Lavatory / loo
Breakfast, lunch, dinner
Serviettes

Oh and I say scone with a short 'o' - not as in sounds like phone ...
and I like the jam on before the cream ...

Lounge
Settee
Toilet
Breakfast, lunch and dinner and we use napkins fabric to match the table cloth except for afternoon cake which is served with paper napkins.
When I go to the toilet I go for a tinkle