Today, in language use I haven't noticed for far too long...

[deird1]

Does everyone in non-Australia seriously call them twin beds?

Twin? Really?

Single/double works so well. Twin/double is more... aren't they the same? It sounds weird.

I'm rather confused.

Comments

[curiouswombat]

We currently have two, identical, single beds in our two, smallish, spare bedrooms. We hope to move house and will then put them side by side in one room as a spare bedroom - and at that point I will probably tell people that our spare bedroom has twin beds...

[petzipellepingo]

Best Friend has two twin beds put together for her and her husband because they have different mattress requirements. She uses queen sheets and blankets to cover both of them.

[deird1]

I had that last year - and not by choice. Twas not fun. (Done for separate mattresses, though, that makes sense.)

[curiouswombat]

It's odd the differences in language that means we seem to mean the same things - but don't, between the US, Australia, Canada and the UK.

In our word usage a queen sized sheet wouldn't fit a pair of twins as a single is 3feet wide - so two of them would be 6feet wide. But a king sized bed is only 5 feet wide - so a queen sized bed to me is a standard 4foot 6inch double!

[deird1]

It's like the difficulties I have with American recipes. "1 cup" means a totally different size there...

[deird1]

See, that makes sense to me. It's the single bed, by itself, called a "twin" that baffles me.


(Also, happy birthday!)

[curiouswombat]

Thank you - and yes, that would baffle me a bit, too!