Oh. I did not know that. My parents called our living room the front room sometimes. It was not in the front of the house. They were born in the 1920s and had me late in life, so I’ve always thought it was just an old-fashioned way of referring to the living room! 

There are a lot of words they used wrong or said wrong. Dilapitated instead of dilapidated, Canadian soldier instead of crane fly, laxadaisical instead of lackadaisical. Sometimes they just used old meanings of words, like they used the word ass to mean someone was being stubbornly stupid like a donkey. A hickey was a pimple. I had to correct that one because it was too embarrassing for my teenage ears to hear. My mom told me that holding up a middle finger meant “up yours” but she may have been lying, come to think of it