What are "eyeglasses" commonly called in England?

Spectacles is the word, but most people just refer to them as glasses.

Get a room, you two…
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@ucme Yeah, both are correct here too but we almost always say glasses.

@rebbel We don’t need a room! D

@janbb I don’t personally know anyone who calls them spectacles & my wife would certainly give me a funny look if I ever used that word.

Some folks clearly do, but I reckon that’s those who also raise their little pinky when drinking tea on the lawn.

Oh & @rebbel…she’s your gal & I don’t do “sloppy seconds” ;-}

They call them “glahsses”, similar to how we Americans might pronounce “glosses”.

@Demosthenes Pronunciation would depend on what party of the country you were from.

I think of spectacles as kind of an old-fashioned word in the USA. Makes me picture Ben Franklin. I was surprised to see it consistently used in a modern novel.

I wonder what “sloppy seconds” is in American English…?

By the way, I think I’ve also heard it pronounced as ‘glesses’.

Yes @Demosthenes @janbb is very much on the money there.
The way you pronounce the word appears to come right out of Downton Abbey :D

Up here in the northeast where I am, it is said, well, think of asses with the gl in front.

Eyeglasses?

They do not have glasses.
They all wear monocles.

@ucme Yes, “glahsses” is “Received Pronunciation” (standardized out of southern English dialects) which is how many Americans imagine all British people speak, but I’m sure it’s not quite as common as we think.

Yes & all German women sport monobrows!

@Demosthenes There are multiple regional accents, the strongest of which, even we struggle to understand.