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    What do you call this?




    And what do you call the room that it is usually found in?

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    Sofa.

    EDIT: In the sofa room.
    Last edited by randomlegend; 01-10-2018 at 04:19 PM.

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    Couch. Sitting room or living room, more usually the latter.

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    Sofa, living room.

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    Sofa, living room.

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    Settee or Sofa and the Living Room

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    Sofa, Living room.

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    I'd call that a sofa, and funnily enough I'd call a leather one a settee.

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    Sofa, sitting room.

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    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.

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    Sofa and living room.

    Settee and sitting room close seconds.

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    Settee. Living room.

    My mum calls it a suite. The settee I mean. She still says living room, like a normal person.
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    Do we have anyone here who's parents kept the plastic on their sofa/armchairs?

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    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.

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    Lounge is acceptable. Common round my way, anyway.

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    Lounge would be fairly normal to me.

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    Lounge is the non-bar-side of a pub.
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    Baz is correct.

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    Sofa, living room.

    EDIT: Growning up I think I probably called it the settee.

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    I think Settee is the 80’s name for them.

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    Couch and living room.

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    Couch most of the time but if I was speaking to the English it would be a sofa. Living Room for both.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    I think Settee is the 80’s name for them.
    Working class. Very much a fellow traveller of serviette, sweet, etc.

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    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.

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    Couch, living room.

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    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.

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    Is that sweet as in what some people call dessert?

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    Sofa in the living room.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    Is that sweet as in what some people call dessert?
    Close enough. Same thing as an En-Suite Bathroom.

    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    Working class. Very much a fellow traveller of serviette, sweet, etc.
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    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.

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    Oh, you mean afters.

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    I’ve only seen ‘sweet’ used that way in Indian restaurants.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    Yeah I've often heard English people calling a dessert a sweet or pudding no matter what the dessert is.
    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.

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Baz View Post
    Settee. Living room.

    My mum calls it a suite. The settee I mean. She still says living room, like a normal person.
    'This'. FACT.

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    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).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    Sofa, sitting room.
    This for me.

    Couch sounds American.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    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).
    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.

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    I miss not having leather. Something extra comfy about proper “material” armchairs.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Baz View Post
    I miss not having leather. Something extra comfy about proper “material” armchairs.
    Exactly the same. Hate leather in a living room suite or in a car. Don't know who ever decided it was comfort.

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    Exactly the same. Hate leather in a living room suite or in a car. Don't know who ever decided it was comfort.
    I don't like fabric seats.

    Leather > *.

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    4:16

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    Working class. Very much a fellow traveller of serviette, sweet, etc.
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    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.
    I say pudding about 80% of the time, occasionally straying into the ghastly 'dessert' in certain company. It's posher than dessert.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    I say pudding about 80% of the time, occasionally straying into the ghastly 'dessert' in certain company. It's posher than dessert.
    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    Pudding is those born in the 50s and people who went to boarding school.

    Floyd fulfills both categories if not in body then spirit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    Pudding is those born in the 50s and people who went to boarding school.
    I didn't do either and I say pudding.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    Floyd fulfills both categories if not in body then spirit.
    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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