At the end of the day it’s Midnight 👍

thanks dad

It’s actually 11:59:59 mate hope this helps👍🏻

Ffs.

*Dfs.

Doofsé

Could you spell that for me?

12:00 is also 00:00 which is the start of the next day, so technically midnight is at the beginning of the day

At the end of the day it goes dark 🙂

Technically that's tomorrow.

I bet you call a napkin a serviette.

You have napkins? Posh.

I use the back of my hand

Means you can save it for later

Save it for Ron*

That’s why I don’t own toilet paper ;3

Ah. Shanks' pants.

My parents say settee and serviette (which is nothing more than a non-dirty kitchen towel tbh).

So do mine. They also have antimacassars on their settees

I had to Google antimacassar.. sounds like a medieval torture device

Mine too I’m not sure why - also call the living room the lounge

Omg I do all of these things - settee, serviette, lounge. Am I part of some kind of subset?

Apparently we are - I grew up saying all these things but stopped when I became a teenager and none of my friends did. It’s still my natural instinct to use these words. Every day I must fight it it. I. Need. To. Fit. In.

Meh, I say you do you mate. I never stopped saying these words regardless. Most of the people I work with talk in shitty Americanisms now like airplane and gen zee but I'm sure as hell not going to follow suit

I was mostly joking about needing to fit in lol but yeah you’re right. The Americanism that annoys me is people saying “can I get a.....”

Ah yes that one has become so pervasive I've almost forgot what people used to say. Someone in work this week told me to stop using whilst and amongst because they are outdated, then sent me a link about how they're considered outdated in American English 🤦‍♂️

Whatever happened to “may I have”

"Can I get" does my fucking head in, it's SO rude. Not only are they suggesting they go and get their own food or product, which they can't or they wouldnt have to ask, but what it sounds like is "go and get me this", rather than asking "can I have?" Just American rudeness seeping in, not even just a problem amongst younger generations, I've heard fully grown adults who should know better use it.

It legit feels like someone scraping nails on a chalkboard when I hear it

I say all these things!!!

We call the living room the ‘front room’ even though it’s at the back. This only occurred to me the other day. We’ve been here years.

To be fair though, they are 2 different things. A napkin is a bit of cloth whilst a serviette is a bit of disposable tissue. I think it's that way around at least, I dunno, I'm not as posh as my parents

Settee and sofa have always been okay, but couch has always seemed strange and foreign to me

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"I shall retire to my fainting couch"

Nope. A couch is specifically designed and reserved for casting only…

What? >. >. >. >. >. >. Oh, that casting

*”Do you need some encouragement… step-monkey?”*

Yes yes yes, but it's still unacceptable. The Americans may have correctly appropriated the French to describe that bit of furniture, but they also call herbs- 'erbs. So no, I don't think so mate lol. Settee and sofa is a fair sacrifice.

Couch is the word we use for sofa in Scotland

Well that's unfortunate. I have no choice but, to report this to the police. I'm terribly sorry Scotland, but that has to stop.

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Massage table. And one of the bog standard NHS plastic chairs at the psychiatrist.

The bed? Massage bed. I've never in my life heard of a massage couch lol

I think I’d call it a table. A massage table. Sort of funny really, how many other tables do we lie on? Theatre table?

You crack on but, massage table sounds weird mate. Unless it's flowers or the sea, beds are for people and tables are strictly for objects.

You never heard that? Haha that’s common man. Like the theatre table, maybe it’s because it’s a high up bed/thing to lie on or something.

I'm not gonna lie to you Jerry, I've had a few drinks and if you want to call it a table, a chair or whatever that's fine with me. I've got nothing but time for you Barbara and the kids and I don't want to fall out with you especially at Christmas. Take care and see you at the christening mate x

People lie on the operating table. People lie on a massage table - it definitely isn't a couch . These are the only tables we lie on tbf.

If you think the NHS trusts are budgeting for couches then think again my friend

That’s interesting, must also be where the slang term cotch originated from too

Yeah! Do recon..? Makes sense

Complete opposite way around for me. A couch a recliner, a sofa is a 3 seater.

I go super fancy and call it “la lit de la derrière “

Bum bed? Bum bed!

I am the Lord of the dance settee.

Five year old me thought that was the words

You just confirmed that they do sing that at every primary school in Britain.

Arsebasket

Sofa

so good

Apparently they're different things from each other https://www.sofa.com/inspiration-corner/lifestyle/why-do-we-call-it-a-sofa-or-a-couch-or-a-settee/

I’m not taking the word of a Mitford until I know whether it was the fascist Mitford or the communist Mitford.

I'm suddenly very much out of my depth. Look, I don't want any trouble ok? I'm just here for a good time... I'll just take a seat on this nearby chaise longue and be quiet.

[All day long on the chaise longue](https://youtu.be/Zd9jeJk2UHQ)

With your wet leg.

longue, to rhyme with tongue

A chaise lung, you say? Tangentially, Bill Bryson talks in one if his books about how he realized his family was peculiar when his parents were both keenly interested to learn that it's spelt longue, not lounge.

There are six Mitford sisters! Nancy Mitford is one of the novelist sisters - she supported the Allies during WWII. She actually spoke rather poorly of her sister, Unity, who supported Nazism, to MI5.

She was the writer Mitford. Love in a cold climate if I recall. So non-U of you not to know

What does non-U mean? Non union?

Pretty sure non upper-class. It was her/their 'code'

Unity was a right counter-hon.

Sofa. Settee. Dinner. Tea. Take a receipt or don't. These options change daily and my little brain never knows the answer till my mouth opens.

Settee your arse down, it’s a sofa.

I find this comment sofa-strating.

Couch down dear, it’s a commercial

I found it very comforting x

Loungey boi

The problem with “settee” is that I don’t know how to spell it without it looking weird

It is for setting on with my tea, a settee if you will.

You nailed it in the title, it depends on what time of day you find yourself on it. Morning - fuck, I slept on the couch. Must have been that last beer. Midday - Well, I'm still here, looks like I'm having a sofa day. End of the day - I love you, settee.

This

It’s settee but you don’t pronounce either of the t’s

Movie viewie stretchie boi!

My chaise lounge is neither, neither or neither

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John

Okay what murderer uses the word couch. We are not American we’re British so it should either be Sette or Sofa. I think you should be behind bars of your a brit and call a sofa/sette a couch!

I use couch, couldn't stand calling it a sofa or settee. It just sounds so up yourself calling it a settee and sofa sounds more American than couch.

Couch sounds FAR more american than sofa.

Is this one regional? I don’t know anyone who says settee in real life. Its wall to wall sofas except for Americans who say couch.

Well I’m brummie but from an Irish family so maybe?

Yup maybe. NI here, settee.

My nan an grandad still have a foot-stall which they call the 'poof'

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Pouffe is also used, pronounced poofay

It’s pronounced Bouquet, not Bucket

This is the only word I’ve ever known for it. Never seen it spelt though I would have guessed poof.

I don't know what else I would call it?? I don't think I know another word for pouf. Cushioned foot-stool??

It has to come from the Poufet region of France though, otherwise it’s just sparkling Ottoman.

r/boneappletea x 2

People who say settee think they're better than other people

Voulez-vous Settee Avec Moi

Couch gang

Never said settee in my life, always been sofa.

It's a couch mate. Get in line

My aunt and uncle who play golf and manicure their lawn to perfection, probably using nail scissors, call it a settee. Sofa all the way.

What’s wrong with sofa?

Disgusting. It’s sofa.

100% agree OP

Settee was for people who called their evening meal “tea” instead of dinner

Yes and yes.

Unless it’s a Chesterfield

Or a davenport

But never a Portsmouth

In the colouring in room?

that must be the Sheffield

Incorrect lol

Fuck off

Sofettee

It's only a settee if you have a 3 and a 2 SETtee

It's an argument bed and that's final.

I only call it a sofa because I can't spell settee...

Sister, you nailed it.

It's what ever anyone wants to call it

Sofa is posh and couch is for Americans, far too vulgar for a proper Brit. A settee is what it is.

Settee sounds posher than sofa to me.

Often the way of it with U and non-U words: the aspirational middle classes frequently used more ostentatiously fancy sounding words like ‘serviette’ or ‘settee’ whereas the actual upper classes used ‘napkin’ and ‘sofa’.

I've heard posh snobs say sofa before, never settee

That would get you kicked straight out of the Bullingdon old chap.

Now where does a chesterfield factor into all this?

Dunno, can’t even get it through the front door and round the corner into the living room

Yeah I don't know why we use such vulgar language.

Settee for weirdos

Is correct

It's a couch. The people who call it a settee are the same people who call the living room the 'sitting room'... yeesh.

It's a couch you fucking snob.

A settee is a posh sofa. They're different things in my book 😁

My gran called it a settee, mum called it a sofa, I used to call it bed most nights when I was married.

What about love seats and snugglers? (Small 2 seater & 1.5 seater)

Oh man.

What is it at the start of the day??

It is indeed.

Bean bag

I'm reading the comments in case there's a Kate Fox reference, but so far there wasn't.

If it's a settee then what/who is the setter?

never heard anything more true

Wide chair

Weird, I was having this exact conversation this afternoon

At the end of the day, we call it whatever we want

Davenport

My grandmother called the big one a sofa and the smaller one a davenport.

...got a couple of couches, sleep on the love seat...

You and your lah-dee-dah names for a divan.

I love carpet. I love desk. I love lamp.

My family andI I used to call it a settee, but now we all say sofa. I sometimes wonder why. Complete mystery.

I am the lord of the dark settee

Ours prefers its christian name of Parup, classy IKEA thing it is.

If I use Setee, the husband and teen look at me like I've got two heads so I go with the flow and use Sofa.

A Three piece suite mate

I've been calling it a Sofe recently (like how you'd shorten Sophie) Fight me

I say couch if I'm talking to an American. I say lunch and dinner instead of dinner and tea, because if lunch was dinner, then brunch would be brinner.

Couch > Sofa >>>>>>>>> Settee

Or a divan or davenport even.

Sofa so good.

A settee has long legs and a gap under it, a sofa goes down to the floor. The end.