How do you say...

[Lamp]

Sofa / settee / couch ?

Napkin / serviette / kitchen roll ?

Lavatory / toilet / loo / bog / little boys room / mens room / wash room ?

sitting room / drawing room / front room / lounge ?

 

[Dudley52]

Sofa

serviette / kitchen roll ? Two different things. If your in a restaurant you ask for a serviette or napkin. Not kitchen roll.

toilet

lounge

 

[collegien]

What an amazing thread

 

[Billargh]

Tea or Dinner?

 

[Binky the Bomb]

Settee, kitchen roll, toilet, front room. And all for damn fine reasons.

 

[georgie]

Settee, Serviette, Toilet, Lounge

And kitchen roll when actually talking about kitchen roll.

 

[Lamp]

According to this programme I watched tonight, settee / serviette / toilet / lounge are all "common" - in the derogatory sense.

They reckon they can tell what class you're from the moment you open your mouth, let alone what job you do, what job your father does, how much money you earn, where you live, whether you have a second home in the country, whether you have servants, whether you live so near to work you can walk it from your weekday house, whether you shoot grouse, whether you play polo, etc etc

There was some amusing talk about names. What are "upper class" or "toff" names ?

Marmaduke
Upton
Tarquin
Sebastian
Peregrine
Quentin
Hugo
Milo
Giles
Rupert
Syngeon
Charles
Jasper
Claude
Forbes

Arabella
Bridget
Abigail
Olivia
Gertrude
Camilla
Davina
Jemima
Petunia
Grace
Alice
Isabella
Harriet
Stella

Apparently if you're called after a place, you're common as muck, Chelsea, Mercedes, Porsche, and so on. Likewise, names that end abruptly are also chavvy - Jade, Wayne, Kylie, Keira, Jack, Pete, Dave, Alf, Sue, etc etc

Most amusing

 

[Mikah75]

Sofa
Napkin when it's a napkin, kitchen roll when in fact it is kitchen roll
toilet
lounge

 

[georgie]

I've always found Tarquin to be an hysterically funny name.

 

[Binky the Bomb]

I've always found Tarquin to be an hysterically funny name.

Oh yes.... I know what you mean, although prob for different reasons.

 

[Lamp]

I've always found Tarquin to be an hysterically funny name.

Aye. If anyone introduced themselves to you as Tarquin, would be a hard job keeping a straight face

 

[cHodAX]

Couch

Napkin

Bog

Front Room

 

[cHodAX]

James is a proper name, it transcends all classes.

 

[Everz]

Sofa

Kitchen Roll

Bog

Front Room

 

[leviathane]

Sofa / settee / couch ?

Napkin / serviette / kitchen roll ?

Lavatory / toilet / loo / bog / little boys room / mens room / wash room ?

sitting room / drawing room / front room / lounge ?

Somebody has been watching grumpy old men: classes xD


But yes, Sofa/Napkin/ Lavatory or loo/ sitting room. Just what I was taught as I grew up.

 

[kirennia]

If there are in fact people who determine your class by what you say, they are lower by default by trying to seperate people in that fashion. Personally, I don't give a shit what people describe them by, that doesn't class you unless you're a shallow morally deficiant human being who is willing to view someone as 'lesser' just because they name something differently to your high and mighty self. That programme is bollocks mate; anyone who feels the need to pidgen hole people like that is a socially inadequate human being with some sort of a superiority complex which I'd hazard a guess at saying they got because they were born with money. There are some seriously fucking stupid people out there with money. Just look at the waste of space jade goody. Nuff said. That said though,

Sofa
Kitchen roll!
Toilet
Sitting room.

 

[Lamp]

Agreed, but thats what makes the whole expostulation of class in Britain humourous.

Its full of so many contradictions, illogicalities and downright stupidity that these days the entire concept of class is obsolete, and should be consigned the way of the Dodo.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Sohva.

Servetti.

Vessa.

Olohuone.

*grin*

 

[Ezteq]

Sofa
Napkin
loo
lounge


and i looove the name StJohn (pronounced synjen) i think its gorgeous!

 

[Levin]

Sofa / settee / couch ?
Soffa

Napkin / serviette / kitchen roll ?
Servett

Lavatory / toilet / loo / bog / little boys room / mens room / wash room ?
Toalett (or) Toa (or when drunk) Skithus

sitting room / drawing room / front room / lounge ?
Vardagsrum

 

[Ezteq]

(or when drunk) Skithus

LOL man hmm i wonder what that could mean!!


how do you say lovely in your language?

i just say levin

 

[old.Tohtori]

Skithus is the same as Paskahuussi in Finland. We Scandic people, so eloquent in our speech when we get "tipsy".

 

[Laddey]

Settee
Tissue
Loo/Bog
Front Room

 

[Levin]

LOL man hmm i wonder what that could mean!!


how do you say lovely in your language?

i just say levin

Awww

"Lovely" in swedish is "härlig" or "underbar" ... or just "Ez"

 

[Levin]

Skithus is the same as Paskahuussi in Finland. We Scandic people, so eloquent in our speech when we get "tipsy".

Haha yes. So... huussi means house in finnish? That's got to be one of the few words that almost sounds alike then!

 

[old.Tohtori]

Haha yes. So... huussi means house in finnish? That's got to be one of the few words that almost sounds alike then!

It's a "slang" word really, house is talo, but huussi is a slang word from the swedish word of "hus" really.

But it isn't used in anything else then the crapper.

 

[Levin]

Haha alright.. just another way for the Fins to pwn the Swedes then I guess.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Haha alright.. just another way for the Fins to pwn the Swedes then I guess.

Heh, never really thought of it like that, but i guess that could be the etymology behind it.

Ofcourse our slang words come, especially in some areas, from swedish words from the swedish rule times. But using house only for the crapper, mighty fine pwning, old century style.

 

[Binky the Bomb]

Sohva.

Servetti.

Vessa.

Olohuone.

*grin*

Posh bastard. Bet you eat soup with a spoon too.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Posh bastard. Bet you eat soup with a spoon too.

And how! I get my spoons handcrafted on Jamaican virgins thighs by underprivileged kids!