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[Cadence]

I never understood why the Americans (btw. is it the British also?) had to define one of the bedrooms in their kip as the "master bedroom". I mean is there a master toilet also? Or a master kitchen?

The master bedroom does indeed often come with a master bathroom (or two). In (relatively) newer houses the parents get the distinctly bigger bedroom, with the big closets, and their own bathroom. The kids get smaller ones and might share a bathroom off the hall.

If there's a separate kitchen, that's for someone you don't want eating with the family. Maybe one in a "mother-in-law's suite" (or apartment for the older kid when they come back from college).


Edit: Fixed bad attribution, thanks @Sadras !

 

[Deset Gled]

I never understood why the Americans (btw. is it the British also?) had to define one of the bedrooms in their kip as the "master bedroom". I mean is there a master toilet also? Or a master kitchen?

Actually, yes. The master bedroom typically has a bathroom attached that is only accessible through the master bedroom. That's actually what makes it the master bedroom, not size.

In older houses with servants, there might also be a small secondary kitchen next to the servants quarters.

 

[Cadence]

Actually, yes. The master bedroom typically has a bathroom attached that is only accessible through the master bedroom. That's actually what makes it the master bedroom, not size.

When we stop overnight in a hotel traveling, we sometimes put on HGTV. The shows like House Hunters are often a hoot. When some first time home owners are shown a house built in the 1970s or before, they'll walk from bedroom to bedroom, and then one will shrug and questioningly say "I guess this one's the master....?". With no bathroom of it's own they don't know quite know which one to pick but feel their should be one. And then you get the houses like ours where all the bedrooms are identically sized...

 

[FrogReaver]

For me as a non native speaker when I first heard the term (without having read it before) I thought of something totally different (think something dirty that really sounds alike) and wondered why they would talk such nonsense on MTV while keeping their face totally serious.

I never understood why the Americans (btw. is it the British also?) had to define one of the bedrooms in their kip as the "master bedroom". I mean is there a master toilet also? Or a master kitchen?

Master means principal. Generally homes have 1 living room, 1 kitchen and multiple bedrooms. Master just means the principal bedroom (aka the best bedroom).

 

[WayOfTheFourElements]

Drop the word "Race," and replace it with Ancestry (good call).

Dwarf mother in the birthing room: Oh no! I've had an elven baby. Never have I brought such shame to my ancestry.

Dwarf mother in an adjacent bed: Better elven than goblin like mine. I worry my ancestors will curse us both!

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Dwarf mother in the birthing room: Oh no! I've had an elven baby. Never have I brought such shame to my ancestry.

Dwarf mother in an adjacent bed: Better elven than goblin like mine. I worry my ancestors will curse us both!

That’s the wildest leap I’ve seen in any of these threads, which is saying quite a lot.

 

[WayOfTheFourElements]

That’s the wildest leap I’ve seen in any of these threads, which is saying quite a lot.

I'll take that as a compliment : )

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I'll take that as a compliment : )

It isn’t.

 

[WayOfTheFourElements]

It isn’t.

* shrug *

 

[Sadras]

The master bedroom does indeed often come with a master bathroom (or two). In (relatively) newer houses the parents get the distinctly bigger bedroom, with the big closets, and their own bathroom. The kids get smaller ones and might share a bathroom off the hall.

If there's a separate kitchen, that's for someone you don't want eating with the family. Maybe one in a "mother-in-law's suite" (or apartment for the older kid when they come back from college).

I think you may have accidentally attributed the quote to Hussar.