Tea Towels
I had a bizarre encounter as a wee Gibbon.

My family have and always will call a tea towel a tea towel. Nothing wrong with that at all.

When I was in school however I found that several of my friends referred to them as Kitchen Cloths (weird huh?) and proceeded to take the mickey out of my towels with tea on them.

That got me worried- what else had my idiot parents told me the name of which was a complete fabrication of inner circle knowledge?

I lost many hours worrying about that but it turned out toilet roll is also fine by all accounts (I had this horrible idea as a kid that this use of the word "roll" was severely misgiven).
(British Steel was participating in awesomeness on, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 5:30, 5 replies)

Never, ever, ever
... heard of a Kitchen Cloth.
Tea Towel it and forever will be..!
(Sir Jester, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 6:47, closed)

It's a tea towel.
What in sweet Jebus is a kitchen cloth?
( girlinthehole, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 8:50, closed)

is a kitchen cloth
not a cloth for wiping surfaces clean along the lines of a j-Cloth?
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 9:26, closed)

Indeed
And so shall it forever be.

Anyone who confuses a tea towel with a kitchen cloth should be flayed in Trafalgar Square as a warning to all other transgressors of the naming of kitchen wiping products.

XD
(manwiddicombe is thinking of something witty to add here, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 11:04, closed)

So...
... where does dish-cloth fit into this happy scenario?
(karnuvap, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 21:12, closed)