And what do you call the room that it is usually found in?
And what do you call the room that it is usually found in?
Sofa.
EDIT: In the sofa room.
Last edited by randomlegend; 01-10-2018 at 04:19 PM.
Couch. Sitting room or living room, more usually the latter.
Sofa, living room.
Sofa, living room.
Settee or Sofa and the Living Room
Sofa, Living room.
I'd call that a sofa, and funnily enough I'd call a leather one a settee.
Sofa, sitting room.
Used to be settee but now I say sofa like a normal person. I have a rotational policy for the word I use for the room.
Sofa and living room.
Settee and sitting room close seconds.
Settee. Living room.
My mum calls it a suite. The settee I mean. She still says living room, like a normal person.
I'm a twit
Do we have anyone here who's parents kept the plastic on their sofa/armchairs?
I've grown up calling it a sofa, but my girlfriend calls it a couch and I've caught myself saying that a couple of times.
My parents call the room the "lounge" and I'm not sure I've ever encountered that elsewhere.
Lounge is acceptable. Common round my way, anyway.
Lounge would be fairly normal to me.
Lounge is the non-bar-side of a pub.
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Baz is correct.
Sofa, living room.
EDIT: Growning up I think I probably called it the settee.
I think Settee is the 80’s name for them.
Couch and living room.
Couch most of the time but if I was speaking to the English it would be a sofa. Living Room for both.
Working class. Very much a fellow traveller of serviette, sweet, etc.Originally Posted by Spikey M
I think I probably use them all. Maybe sofa predominantly, although I think I was brought up settee (and sweet too, come to think of it).
They usually go in the lounge, but that can interchange with living room (not lounge room cobber) I guess.
Couch, living room.
Sofa. Although it was a settee when I was living with my parents. Mine is in the lounge. It's the only room big enough to accommodate it.
Is that sweet as in what some people call dessert?
Sofa in the living room.
Close enough. Same thing as an En-Suite Bathroom.
Serviette is all classes, Napkin is an Americanism. I'm not sure what you're on about with sweets.
edit: I've just realised Giggles is referring to Jimmy's post. Carry on.
Yeah I've often heard English people calling a dessert a sweet or pudding no matter what the dessert is.
Oh, you mean afters.
I’ve only seen ‘sweet’ used that way in Indian restaurants.
When I think of a sweet, I think of a hard candy. Like anything between a Skittle and a Werthers. My mum has referred to pudding as sweets before though and I've mentioned her background so maybe Floyd's closer there.
I called dessert a pudding to my Indo-Scottish friend the other day and he was then confused when I didn't mean something pudding-y rather than it just being my word for dessert / afters / the best bit.
'This'. FACT.
The suite would be the whole set (ie, a couch and two armchairs). Suite of furniture. Like a bathroom suite is the whole lot (basin, toilet, etc).
This for me.
Couch sounds American.
It would be indeed, but my mum refers to a single settee as a suite, as well as the two of them together collectively as also the suite.
(Their living room has two three-seater settees, no chairs.)
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We've a 2 and a 3, but I really miss having an armchair.
I miss not having leather. Something extra comfy about proper “material” armchairs.
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Exactly the same. Hate leather in a living room suite or in a car. Don't know who ever decided it was comfort.
I recently bought my first ever brand new sofa and chair. Always had second hand since leaving home and it’s great!
So come too, I had a two and three seater sofa before, this time I’ve a large three seater and a brilliantly comfy chair.
I don't like fabric seats.
Leather > *.
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Where does pudding sit in terms of class? I've never been sure but I fucking hate it as a synonym for dessert. Also 'afters', anyone saying that needs shot.
Pudding is those born in the 50s and people who went to boarding school.
I say pudding about 80% of the time, occasionally straying into the ghastly 'dessert' in certain company. It's posher than dessert.
Floyd fulfills both categories if not in body then spirit.
I didn't do either and I say pudding.
My parents were born in the 50s, so I get it from them. Boarding school, no, but I could tell you a hell of a lot of things about boarding school.
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