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Mr. Tom Posted 8 years ago
Vocabulary

Living room vs. Drawing room

Hi

Are these the same? Or is there some kind of cultural difference between the two? In India and Pakistan, people do not use their drawing rooms for relaxing. They use them only to entertain guests.

  1. Living room
  2. Drawing room

Where I live, people are not familiar with the term living room. They use drawing room only.

Thanks,

Tom

  

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Mr. Tom Where I live, people are not familiar with the term living room. They use drawing room only.

— CalifJim

  • Mr.
  • Tom Where I live, people are not familiar with the term living room.
  • They use drawing room only.
  • Then you must take your audience into account when writing about these things.
  • It seems to me that 'living room' replaced 'drawing room' in everyday speech at least a hundred years ago in the United States.
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Mr. TomWhere I live, people are not familiar with the term living room. They use drawing room only.

Then you must take your audience into account when writing about these things.

It seems to me that 'living room' replaced 'drawing room' in everyday speech at least a hundred years ago in the United States. In Britain, and thus before independence in I

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In the US, drawing room is a quaint expression. No new homes have any drawing room. Living room is current. Great-grandmother's room for receiving guests was the parlor. Kids were not normally allowed there.

Compare these American/ British English terms with Google ngram viewer.

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