It depends where you live

So do I roses! Phoenix, my very Lancashire Nan had a back kitchen and I always assumed it was left over from the days of sculleries. Mind you, my nan only had one anyway!

I was talking to someone in Brighton on the phone once who asked me what I meant by saying I was going to get mardy. My mind went a complete blank and I just couldn't explain.

I don't mind what people call things - it's up to them, but this has made me realise how many rules there used to be - certainly in my life. I wonder if it was insecurity? Fitting in seemed to mean so much to my mother - not to my father he was a bit of a rebel.

I remember going to stay with my parents in law before we were married - early 20s - and my father-in-law taking my soon-to-be husband aside and suggesting that if we were now reading the newspaper I had bought it would be better not to take it into he office with him. As OH would never have read said newspaper it wasn't going to be a problem - it was the Guardian by the way

Just to be different....... I go into the lounge and sit on the sofa.

Ana, I haven't had a chip butty since I was about 20, but remember them as heavenly! The chips have to be either from the fish and chip shop ( preferably in Yorkshire) or cooked in the chip pan by your your Mother.
Fish finger butties are something else, slightly above heaven! I still have one now and then, the fish fingers must be fried and in butter.I am salivating now like one of wossnames dogs.

I still don't understand why my very Welsh grandmother referred to "the back kitchen" as if there might be a front one somewhere!

After eating our evening meal, Mr P goes through to the lounge and sits on the settee.

I go through to the sitting room and sit on the sofa It's a wonder we ever see each other

I'm sure he only says it to try and wind me up!

I was wondering who James was!
NellieMoser, I remember those high teas well, that you describe , at the house of a lovely relative, we ate exactly those foods every time we went there!
My cute little grandson says ' more sammidges please' so we now call them that ourselves.

Our "Sundayname" included our full middle names too. My DDs have no middle names so we used to make some up when they were being told off!

Maybe samwidges is why we have sammies Nfk!

JaneA, don't know where James came from

Charleygirl High tea"! That to me evokes some ham and salad, a small piece of lettuce the odd tomato,cucumber and some salad cream.

However "You must have some bread with it me duck". Tinned fruit salad with evaporated milk to follow and a pot of tea.

"Pudding" is what you eat after dinner, whenever that is.
Lounge/livingroom? Lounge sounds too posh for me as does "sofa" instead of settee.

Gracesgran I also want to know what "Sundayname" is.

Up in the Potteries a "Lobby" is their version of Lancashire hotpot.

I was brought up with

Breakfast
Dinner
Tea
And not much in between so as not to spoil my appetite.
We had a living room and a front room.

Now we have

Breakfast
Coffee - or second breakfast if sausage rolls or Danish pastries are involved.
Lunch - a light meal or dinner if we're out and decide to 'Eat' at lunchtime.
Dinner - unless we've had our main meal in the middle of the day when it becomes tea - a light snack with bread and too much cheese.
Supper - just occasionally - a snack of generally cheese and crackers.
We have a sitting room and a dining room.

And we have samwidges! And eat far too much!

DD in Oz has :
Brekkie
Morning tea
Lunch
Afternoon tea
Dinner
Lounge Room
Dunny/toilet

She was brought up with:
Breakfast
Lunch
Tea
Dinner
Sitting room
Loo

I, on the other hand was brought up with :
Breakfast
Coffee
Lunch
Tea
Dinner
Lounge
Lavatory

I wonder what terms our grandchildren will use .....

Our evening meal at home is tea, you go out for dinner!
Sarnies except for chip butties.
We have a front room, a kitchen/diner and loos.

We have sammies at lunch time - but I have no idea why!

James, we have a lounge and toilets too - though obviously not in the same place!

Lunch and luncheon are considerably different although both are eaten some time around midday.

sandwiches - of course you pronounce the d! - how else would you say it?

Dinner = evening meal
lunch = mid day light meal
pudding = afters (when at home)

What about casserole/stew/lobby/scouse?
bap/bun/scottie/bread roll/barm cake/ ?

Sarnies are two slices of buttered bread with any filling be that jam or bacon.

Lunch (cold food)
Tea (4pm cuppa with cake)
Dinner (cooked meal, followed sometimes by dessert)
Supper (toast, or often cereal)

Here in New Zealand breakfast and lunch are the same as the UK. In between those two meals, there is morning tea, the equivalent of elevenses but not the same as second breakfast. There is also afternoon tea – a mid-afternoon break with a snack and drink which might be tea or coffee for adults and juice, milk or water for children. What I would call supper – a family meal in the evening – is invariably called tea but does not usually include tea for drinking. A more formal evening meal with guests or at a restaurant is called dinner.

The other break in the working day is known as the smoko – an opportunity for a cigarette or, I suppose, a pipe. This is dying out as increasing numbers of people don't smoke these days. Nevertheless, the term smoko is still used for a chance to sit down and relax for 10 minutes.

My mother had so many jobs lined up for me on her day of rest I think my Sunday name was Cinderella.

Ah, I see. Good job mine's always been very short then!

If you were usually called Ana but your mother called you by your full name "Annabelle" when you had done something wrong or not very impressive we would call Annabelle your Sunday name.

Or sangwich (awfy well-spoken Fife)

School dinner = school lunch
Ginell (don't know how to spell it) = short pathway through to main road
Duck = dear
Pouffe = foot stool
Mardy ar** = moody
Petal = chum/friend
Charley's dead = petticoat showing

What's a Sundayname?

Or a sort of fudging of the two...

No wonder the terms butty and sarnie are so popular!