Which do you prefer or what's more correct?

Tearoom

Or

Tea room

or

Tea-room

Thanks,

Kat x

Google says Tea room

Oxf Dict for Writers and Editors, rather to my surprise, says tearoom. But tea shop.

Emma

My instinct would also have been tearoom.

R x

I always thought it was tea room.

Oxford English Dictionary has 'tea room' but suggests it in connection with e.g. the tea room at the House of Commons. A word of warning if your piece is for US consumption - in the US it can also denote 'a public lavatory used as a meeting place by homosexuals'. Another innocuous word appears to have been hi-jacked!

Chris

lmao!

Ha ha Chris, I'm reading a book by an American author at the moment, and one of the characters is thinking of opening a tea room - it's given the story a whole new slant now!

I think I prefer the look of tea room, so I'll go with that.

Thanks,

Kat