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submitted 4 days ago by DakRalter to c/ukcasual@lemmy.world

(I'm not making this a regular thing, don't worry).

I used to say sitting room, but like settee, at some point I switched over to living room. I'm a Londoner, but had a Midlands mum.

Following on from the other post, I think if you say settee, you probably say sitting room. If you say sofa, you probably say living room or sitting room . Lounge definitely goes with couch.

Which term do you use, what region are you in/from? I'm not counting front room, because that's a separate thing imo. The front room is the good room, or "the parlour" if you're posh.

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[-] leraje@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 4 days ago

Where did you get that pic of my nan's house from?

[-] DakRalter 11 points 4 days ago

From your nan's house.

[-] DakRalter 8 points 4 days ago
[-] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 5 points 4 days ago

I'm originally from London and my parents would always say living room and sofa.

My boyfriend's mum refers to one room in her house as a sitting room, and another as a living room. I can never remember which is which, despite living in that house for a number of years.

[-] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago

Why do you keep the buttplug on the telly

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 3 days ago

It's your granddad's ashes.

[-] dgriffith@aussie.zone 3 points 4 days ago

The tubes keep it warm, obviously.

[-] DakRalter 2 points 4 days ago

Why, where are you supposed to keep it?

[-] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago

Swap it with the spider plant so it gets more light

[-] DakRalter 1 points 3 days ago

Oh yeah, that makes sense.

[-] vext01@feddit.uk 3 points 4 days ago

Turn on the tele. Big breakfast is on. Egg on your faaaaace.

[-] waz@feddit.uk 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I don’t think that room could shout ‘30’s built 3bed semi, decorated in the 60s’ any louder

[-] undeadotter@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago

Grew up in the north-west, in a two-up, two-down and it was always the front room. When I was little it was synonymous with living room for me. I only realised it was not the same thing when my gran got annoyed with me for calling her living room the front room (she lived in a bungalow and the living room was at the back of the house). Nowadays still call it the front room back home, even though we moved house when I was 10 and it's no longer technically at the front. But anywhere else I'd say living room. And it's always been a sofa.

[-] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago
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