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My parents called that a "wardrobe". We had one small closet in our house and a free-standing "wardrobe" in another room for hanging more clothes.
"Bureau" for "chest of drawers". (Don't ask me to explain that one.)
"Settee" for "couch".
"Lounge chair" for "recliner".
"Night stand" for a bedside table.
Oh dear, I would still call that a wardrobe. If I move to another place that has teeny closets I may have to get a wardrobe--either an old one or one of those cheapo fake wood new ones.
What else would you call a bureau? To me the dresser is the tall thing and the bureau is the long one with the mirror over it. I must be nuts.
I call my night stand a night stand or a bed table.
This is from my parents more than grandparents, but they're in their 60s and they ARE grandparents, so I'll include it.
They called markers "magic markers," so as I grew up, that's what I called them. So I got to college and asked someone for a magic marker, and they're like "Tracy, it's a marker. And it's not magic." I have no clue where my parents got that one.
I think most people still say "end table."
Bureau is also still used all the time now, but in my book "chest of drawers" is a grandparent thing.
Oh (raising hand) I know about Magic Markers. When they first came out there was only that one brand. They smelled really strong and they had metal caps.
When we were little, my mother gave us the "finger"... after laughing hysterically she was very confused... we asked her if she new what her jesture meant and she said... "yes... up yours".. when we informed her what it meant now she almost died... we did and still do have a great laugh...
Oh (raising hand) I know about Magic Markers. When they first came out there was only that one brand. They smelled really strong and they had metal caps.
kerchief.
hanky.
Peds?
Was that really a brand of markers? I still like the strong smelling ones!
Peds are those little pieces of nylon stocking that you put on your feet to try on shoes in stores. I think they still use that term.
I think the words for handkerchiefs aren't used anymore because handkerchiefs aren't used anymore, by anyone, except my Dad.
Same with a shoe-horn. Nowadays we just buy shoes that fit.
We called a sofa a chesterfield.
A drink of whiskey, a snort.
A vacuum a hoover.
We did not pronounce pizza properly and called it a pea-za.
We called bus' trolleys.
we called a forest ,a bush.
a small stream , a crick.
we called DDT, fly spray, I don't know why I'm still alive LOL. We would spray it in the house and every bug within a block would keel over.
We called railings bannisters.
People who collected the garbage were, garbage men. No Canadian uses the word trash.
The landfill was the dump.
The strip club was the burlesque.
The local bar was the dive.
Our identification of different nationalaties was bad. Italians were wops, Chinese were chinks, Poles were ******s, Jews were heebs, all south Asians were Pakies, Irish were micks, English were not even refered to . and then there was us, God's chosen people, The Scots. LOL. That's the way it was in toronto back in the 50's
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I must be nuts.
