So what do you call your main room where you would gather as a family?

living room. why?

Kitchen.

over there by the telly

Front lounge living room area place type thing

Hang on.. “gather as a family”? You bastard 😥

Wetherspoons

The East Wing

The Drawing Room

The Crib. Obviously. Erm…. homie

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Parlour

The BIG room.

The snug.

It believe it goes lounge, living room, sitting room, drawing room, in ascending order of poshness. I grew up calling it the lounge (we’re northern) whilst my wife’s (southern) family call it the living room.

While CFH is the real measure of u and non-u speech in these parts, there’s a simple rule: if it sounds French (e.g. lounge, toilet, serviette, dessert), don’t.

I call it the living room, Mrs Pondo calls it the sitting room (and inaccurately refutes all allegations of poshness).

Lounge.

Lots of Aussies say the “lounge room” which I find a bit weird. Especially as no-one says the “kitchen room”.

Do you say sofa or settee?

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Paw, surely?

Living or sitting room.

The ‘big room’ in our house – we also have a smaller room that I call the snug and wife calls the playroom.

Living room.

My OH persists in calling it the “front room”, to my continual confusion as it’s at the back of the house.

Curiously, when I’m at the family home I refer to it as the lounge – as we always did growing up – but at my house it’s always been the living room.

Not sure what happens when I cross out of Cumbria to effect such a change.

My parents both came from Lancashire (although had moved down south by the time I was born)

They always call it the lounge, but the word makes me cringe and I always say living room, or front room

I always thought lounge sounded very “hyacinth bouquet” – but based on comments above maybe I’m wrong and it’s just a north/ south thing

I always thought lounge sounded very “hyacinth bouquet” – but based on comments above maybe I’m wrong and it’s just a north/ south thing

Not a north/south thing, though you’re right that “lounge” is an affectation. When language was a greater marker of social status (and when social status was more acutely felt), words like lounge and pardon marked one out as too aggressively aspirational.

While the idea of “speaking properly” (another affectation) has fallen from favour, for some these words will always be a social signifier.

we call it the living room.
a lounge is in a pub/ hotel.

The Room

My parents both came from Lancashire … They always call it the lounge,

I’m still in Lancashire, and it’s been the living room since my grandparents’ days at least. I’m not so sure it’s a regional split.