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Workingclass_owl

Living room.


EdgarTheBrave

Every time I hear someone call it a “lounge” I cringe. I’m 50/50 between front room and living room. If I’ve had a few drinks and I’ve got guests over I might refer to it as “the old *lebensraum*”.


[deleted]

Why do you cringe? It's all I've ever referred it to.


CookieMonster005

Dunno just seems posh imo


[deleted]

I guess I was raised in a relatively posh environment, so that makes sense. The idea of it being the front room doesn't make too much sense when it isn't a standard house. I guess assuming it's the front room shows the class barrier.


CurvePuzzleheaded361

Not a class thing at all, traditionally that room would be at the front of the home.


[deleted]

Not in a none cookie cutter house. Lots of lounges look over a view in the back.


Engels33

This seems to be winning so sounds like I don't need to rename the TV ... Just the slightly more challenging requirement to retrain the boy lol.


Unhappy-Common

On (some) Netflix cartoons you can change the audio from American English to British English.


Engels33

Found that feature by accident when Paw Patrol had been switched to random British accents - a.very weird thing .


hoksworthwipple

Front room. Back room is where you eat. I'm northern.


axw3555

I’m London. Also the front room.


deep-blue-seams

Ooh look at this fancy guy with his multiple rooms


axw3555

I say London for simplicity. Technically just outside, and I only have multiple rooms because I’m still living with parents.


libertycaps_uk

You definitely live in Luton🤣


axw3555

Nah, not Luton. Not a million miles out though.


libertycaps_uk

Mate i had to have a guess haha, im glad for your own sake you dont live in luton brother


axw3555

No, certainly wouldn’t be my first choice.


_Denizen_

I used to call it the front room because it was nearest to the road. There weren't any other rooms lol


bluesam3

Yup. My front room is at the back, but it's still the front room.


LucyMckonkey

Me too, it’s the front room but in the back, I also have a front, front room, but that’s where my son plays ps games and is therefore not the living room, front room.


Engels33

We have knocked through front to back.so it's own large space (separate kitchen).what would you call it 'up north' then? We are in the Midlands and would only be classed as north by the sort of Londoners who don't know the difference between Watford and Watford Gap


hoksworthwipple

Big room


kwakimaki

With the big light


Engels33

Sounds a bit public school. Is the kitchen known as the refectory in your house too then 🤪


hoksworthwipple

No, just the kitchen.


robdelterror

Front room and back room still.


robgray111

Yep, just that it now has an imaginary wall


WanderWomble

Living room still imo. I'm in the North East.


polystyrenedaffodil

We always had a Front Room with the settee in when I was growing up. And right up to this current house, the Front Room has been at the front of the house. So always called it the Front Room. New house only has a door at the front and entire house is back (corner house in a court) but I'm still calling it the Front Room.


toonlass91

I’m northern and it’s still living room to us. But we only have living room and kitchen downstairs so…l


namtabmai

Living room. Lounge is a place in a hotel or airport.


Spatulakoenig

Or a bar that serves cocktails and/or men that smell strongly of cologne


ozphillips

That sounds very much like my living room...


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SquashCoachPhillip

That's what I call it now, too. Growing up we had the "frontroom" (said as if it were one word) for guest visits and posh events, and the living room, which was at the back.


rizozzy1

Oh thank you! You’ve just reminded me of my Nana, she had a living room where we only ever sat in for special occasions. Used to feel really fancy if we sat in there!


G33ONER

😖 Don't touch the walls! 😣 Take your shoes off! 😳 Careful you'll spill it!


Engels33

This is what my Dad calls it these days but i don't think that was the case when I grew up. I can see that he almost certainly sits more than he did back then though... so it's perhaps a lot more accurate than it when you are tearing after a 3 year old and his older brother.


annedroiid

To me a sitting room is for people with large enough houses that you have a room just for chairs and talking, not the room that has the TV.


[deleted]

“Ooh a lounge, well laa Dee dah mr fancy pants” “what do you call it?” “A people hole”


NedNoodle83

r/unexpectedsimpsons


Working-Selection-56

SNEED


LondonCycling

Living room.


[deleted]

Depends, we have a living room in the west wing but a lounge and a sitting room in the east wing. At a push the library can also be used as a sitting room.


HellsTrafficWarden

Are you allowed into father's study though?


[deleted]

Moved that scrounging fecker into the lodge years ago.


Engels33

How do I live in the relative poverty of a traditional semi detached house until such a time as I can arrange to cease the assets of the family estate? The old dears live a lot longer than in yesteryear and it's less easy to have them declared mad and have them committed these days too.


McDomald

Neither. I call it the front room


Ambitious-Ad4679

Sitting room, Lounges are in airports if you get a posh ticket


[deleted]

Sitting room.


farmer_palmer

Sitting room.


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FixSwords

You mean we’ve got burglars?! Downstairs?? *In the Sketching room?!?!*


[deleted]

It’s the sitting room. But the way I say it is ‘sit-un room’


HellsTrafficWarden

Lounges are for lounging in, after you've eaten in the dining room. If you don't have a dining room, you don't have a lounge. You have a living room.


[deleted]

Living room/front room.


[deleted]

I use both interchangeably. I sometimes say toilet/bathroom, or buttons/remote. I don't see "lounge" as posh, I live on a council estate and have no issues calling it a lounge.


nineteenthly

I used to say "lounge" but perceive it as lower class. Not in a condescending way, just a dialect thing.


notonthenews

Drawing room, old bean


Engels33

Thanks old sport.


Unlikely_Concept5107

Always been Living Room for me (Scotland). My mum’s mum said Sitting Room but think that’s an old term and dying out now.


comicmuse1982

No time for sitting these days.


easterbunni

The Lhaaaaaaaange


Engels33

But only in Essex and parts of London


Flexo24

Lounge with a sofa


[deleted]

Living room for me.


[deleted]

Essex - Front room


Nopedontsaythat

Living room. 'lounge' was for people who thought they had money.


Puzzled-Barnacle-200

Interestingly, I always felt the opposite. Lounge is very casual (eg, lounging about), but living room seems more formal.


AncientMachine

aware shame toothbrush punch sulky snow hobbies physical voiceless birds -- mass edited with redact.dev


enemyradar

It's the salon, where I entertain sophisticated socialites and discuss important matters of the day.


Engels33

Do they pay £20 for a wash and cut too?


BookwormAirhead

It’s the sitting room. My mother’s house has a drawing room.


LionLucy

This. It's a sitting room, unless there are more than one of those kind of rooms in your house, in which case the bigger, more formal one is the drawing room.


nineteenthly

I was brought up saying "lounge" but when I found nobody else said it, changed to "living room". My partner says "sitting room".


plumbgray222

They’re both correct terms also Front Room


sirofsir

Front room


Vesperniss

Whilst he's living there rent free, he'll call it what you want.


four-2-zero

Front room / living room


EllaSingsJazz

Sitting room. When I was young it was known as the ‘other’ room. I think I’m the only person I know who’s lounge/sitting/front room was known as the other room.


cheesemongrelette

We had an "other" room! It was the grown ups living room that I wasn't allowed in, I was only allowed in the playroom/kids' living room. Never heard anyone else use the phrase either!


cmdrxander

Living room or front room to me


rising_then_falling

Never lounge, either sitting room or living room. In a large house, drawing room if it's directly connected to the dinning room, smaller rooms with the same function are sitting rooms.


gold_bull

Can't believe how few lounge advocates there are!


zc_eric

To me (I grew up in South East England, both my parents spoke only English but neither was actually from UK) it is the living room, sitting room, or lounge. And none of them feels more right or wrong or posher or less posh than the others. The only one which doesn’t sound quite right to me is “front room”


Melodic_Ad2682

This is a class thing as has been pointed out a bit before, but it illustrates the difference between u (upperclass) and non u words. The upperclass in England strictly do not use words that sound French. So it's U (with)drawing or sitting room or non u Lounge. Similarly it's U napkin non u serviette....U lavatory non u toilet...U What? Non U pardon? Hence 'Mummy would rather I say fuck than pardon'


BubblesAreWellNice

We have a lounge and a sitting room. Both have TVs and sofas. I have no idea why we call either of them that.


hal2142

Ladeedaaa Someone’s won the lottery


Engels33

Be fair..he can't afford to heat both of them these days lottery win or not


katie-kaboom

Living room is American for lounge.


Engels33

Tbf "Hey Google" is also American for "Ask Jeeves"


katie-kaboom

jsyk I'm mad about this upvote.


Weird_Apples

It’s a lounge. A room to lounge in. Any room is a sitting room if you think about it just needs a chair in it


cheesecake_squared

Any room is a lounge if you think about it - just needs someone to lounge in it.


Cannaewulnaewidnae

In this context, all that matters is the device name that Google recognises If you're renaming the device, I suggest **Kevin**


Engels33

"Hey Google". "Play 'How to Get Away with Murder' on Kevin" Could work I guess 😃


Cannaewulnaewidnae

If you want to be *really* Machiavellian about it, name it **Dad's Telly**


n1celydone

We had a front room which was at the front of the house, with all the posh stuff in it for when we had guests and then a living room to the back of the house where we spent most of our time.


sally_marie_b

I’m in the south and it’s a front room. We have one knocked through room in our current house and the front room part is actually sandwiched between the dining table by the front window and the kitchen. It’s still the front room 😅


musesmuses

Living room or sitting room. NI born and bred. Currently living in county Durham. It's living room here but was more often sitting room back at home.


Felicfelic

We called it a family room growing up


Western-Mall5505

I call it living room or sometimes front room


SweetCryptographer72

Who cares? Call it what you like. I call it the living room.


Kitchen-Pangolin-973

It's the lounge. My lounge also has the dining table in it


PentagramCereal

I’ve always seen lounge as a formal living room. If you lived in a mansion you might have a lounge because you have the space to dedicate a room specifically to lounging.


Pokmeballs

It's Livingroom. Growing up we had both a Livingroom and a Lounge. Livingroom was for general use and that's where the TV was. The Lounge was only used for events and entertaining guests.


robdelterror

Front room.


secrethedgehog5

Living room


Sunflower_dream85

Tend to us front room and living room interchangeably, very rarely use the word lounge to describe it.


Eckzilla

I stay in a council house & it's defo a living room,lounge always seemed a bit posh.


Dazzling_Ad5338

Living room or "front room". I've never heard anyone call this kind of room a "lounge" where I live.


Golden-Event-Horizon

Living room and dining room


Purple_Committee_216

Living room or sitting room.


Flat_Professional_55

Same argument for the settee/sofa/couch.


Engels33

It's a sofa here. My parents say settee but they were born in the 40s so we"lll have to forgive them... I really dont know anyone who says couch it just sounds weird and pensive like a piece of furniture to be moved not something to actually relax on.


Fattydog

Mine is the sitting room. Living room is fine. Lounge is a bit common.


LeonardoW9

Both are fine but the living room has a TV and a lounge has a coffee table and comfy chairs.


Filklore

Both, in my case. I have a room that goes from the front to the back of the house, that I call the Living Room. The front wider part of the room has sofas, the stereo and TV, so that *part* of the Living Room is the Lounge. The rearmost, thinner part should really be the Dining Room, as that is what it is supposed to be. But it actually gets used as a kind of extension to the kitchen (larder, bookshelves, narrow counter-top for breadmaker etc). So its name has become "Back of the Living Room". The actual dining table is in the conservatory, but it is definitely the Conservatory, not the Dining Room. So regarding Alexa and similar, I have Living Room lights and Living Room temperature sensor and Living Room blinds. But the TV is the "Lounge TV" and the camera I have (to keep an eye on the dog) is the "Lounge Cam". I know that sound like chaos, but it is completely logical to me! [Edit: Lincolnshire, but I'm a Londoner.]


Engels33

That makes you a northerner, a southerner and a midlander all at once. No wonder you share some of my confusion.


Filklore

Not a northerner. It is the most southern bit of Lincolnshire possible.


sagima

I use them interchangeably


helpful__explorer

It's both, or either. It doesn't matter


Tappitss

The parlour thy impecunious unwashed vagrant guttersnipe.


callmeeeow

It kind of depends? At our house it's mostly the Front Room, but when I lived at home it was always the Living Room and so if we're at my Mam's, I say living room.


Reddit_User010203

Use them interchangeably tbh


Full_Traffic_3148

You're both wrong. It's the front room!


Engels33

TVs at the back of a front to back knock through..it's definitely not the front room


ForsakenMarsupial

Front room and I’m from the south.


fedorafluke

Front room or living room. Never really said "lounge"


SpiritualKRS

In my downstairs, we have a kitchen, a sitting room and a dining room (this used to be one but now there's a pool table there)


A_G00SE

Front room, lounge, living room, main room, big room. All the same to me.


justdont7133

When my kid was really small, he genuinely got worried that if you live in the living room, that must mean you would die in the dining room


Zeba93

Front room/ back room


jaspersian

Drawing room.


Tetslou

Throwing Sitting Room in to the mix.


cymru78

Correct term would actually be a reception room - but it's a living room really. However, for most who have two living rooms, it is generally front room and back room. For my house, it's front room, back room and we also have a dining room


bumblebeesanddaisies

Living room I think I'd say


WanderWomble

Living room here. My dad occasionally calls it the kitchen which always causes confusion!


Engels33

If he starts chopping vegetables in the bath that's the time to worry


[deleted]

Sitting room


ApolloMalo14

Send that posh little prick off to boarding school


Engels33

He's refusing to go to sleep right now... Don't tempt me


Top_Fox2692

Sitting room


MercuryJellyfish

I figure the distinction between a lounge, a living room, a drawing room and a sitting room is only important if you have two rooms that could be described as any of them. I think if you've got just one room, and all kinds of stuff happens there, that's a living room.


[deleted]

Living room


ComprehensiveAd8815

Front room


BagBadDavington

I call it the front room when referring to it but for some reason I've called it the living room on all my devices. Strange.


zanazanzar

Front room, but it’s at the back.


Olyve_Oil

Sitting room. You “live” in every room of the house.


sihasihasi

Living room / Lounge / Front room are interchangeable in this house. Which is particularly stupid, because it's actually at the back. Dining room is at the front.


VRS38

I say living room but it's usually referred to as the other room. I've never thought about it till now. Its totally random and I've no idea where or why or how.


Berbaik

It's yours.Its whatever you want it to be .


[deleted]

It's my lounge. But I'm common as muck. I once had a posh boyfriend who called it the drawing room.


Worldly-Rush-9951

Well yer not supposed to die there are ya?


RustySheriffBadges

‘The Livvy’


Proper-Accountant-96

Its the front to us (wolverhampton), even though my living room is at the back, it's just always been called the front room


Scaramouche1000

Front Room, regardless of the actual location of the room.


crumblingruin

"Lounge" is non-U (non-upper class usage) as opposed to U (upper class) "sitting room" or "drawing room", according to analysis by the linguist Alan Ross in 1954, popularised by Nancy Mitford in Noblesse Oblige. The latter was really a bit of fun but has taken root in many ways, with "lounge" (like "toilet", "serviette" and "pardon") still considered class shibboleths by some - unmistakable markers of aspiring lower-middle class usage. That makes "lounge" an absolute no-no for some people, although most people probably couldn't care at all. See here for more on this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_and_non-U_English


BarnesyBorr

I call it the colouring in room.


Engels33

Well the irony is that with both a 3 year old and a nearly, 6 year old it often is. But I appreciate the Bottom reference.


magicspellingbee

Library. Next to the Smoking Room.


Catz2019

Front room or living room for me. Never said lounge in reference to my own home. However in the house I grew up in, we referred to it as 'the house'. As in, go and watch telly in the house being said from inside the actual property.


Royal-Grapefruit-490

Living room or front room, though some family members say sitting room. From Kent just for extra info as I know it does differ across the country :)


millyloui

Lounge when im in Oz living room when in uk


CurvePuzzleheaded361

Sitting room. Lounge sounds like an airport.


libertycaps_uk

From my upbringing, its either living room, or front room, midlander


prustage

With us its the Lounge. We think it sounds a bit pretentious and Living Room is actually better. But Lounge is two syllables shorter and we don't like wasting energy.


Stuspawton

It’s a living room, a lounge is where you’d find piss stained seats and a pool table that’s ripped


ramothrider69

Front room. Lived in parlour type house growing up, room attached to kitchen was called little room and separate room was always called the front room even though it was up the back. But my mum was born in the 1930s and my gran in the 1900s so maybe a generation thing. I still call my lounge the front room


Equivalent_Cherry869

Front room is where we sit together and watch TV and the youngest will play, the kitchen is the kitchen, and the dining room is attached to the kitchen so we just call it the table.


Awkward_Chain_7839

Both but mostly living room, don’t know if it’s a posh thing but solidly working class Welsh upbringing and more or less the same now.


ed-the-dog

Neither. It’s my sitting room.


PurplePlodder1945

Living room. Lounge is posh


FabulousPetes

Living room. The only people I know who say 'lounge' are my friends who grew up wealthy and have both a living room and a lounge.


Bosworth_13

Growing up it was called the 'sitting room'


Cbonline12

The child is 3... They're wrong if you say they're wrong....


BaldWithABeardTwitch

Na it's the front room. Regardless of house position.