Yay! This QOTW is for me!
as above, "lounge" and "toilet" - but actually "front room" too - it was the sitting room, in my parents' house
"settee"
"serviette"
grammatical errors
discussing money esp. haggling over restaurant bills
commerce in general (I work in retail, and once said this to my MD at the start of a two hour car journey, just me and him. That was clever)
sports in general
football shirts as leisurewear
estuary English
pronouncing licorice "lickerish"
pronouncing tissue "tishoo"
(although I do draw the line at "suit" - I do pronounce it "sute")
conspicuous consumption - vulgar jewellery, flashy cars etc
faux-Tudor leading in windows
calling your grandmother "nan"
calling your evening meal "tea"- I've always thought that it's supper if at home and dinner if out
calling your lunch "dinner"


I find almost everything about modern life - particularly my own - insufferable, I have to admit. But then I'm quite posh, I'm afraid. Not in a plummy, knob-end way, but I can't help having fairly illustrious forebears and I'm rather proud of (albeit also rather daunted by) them.

Please don't hate me. My mother pretended we 'couldn't get ITV' until I sussed it out when I was about 6....

Let the flames begin.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:38, 22 replies)

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Damn you Monty you are already taking my best ones...
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:43, closed)

discussing money - I'm not sure what to make of this one,
not discussing money is possibly the most ridiculous idea I've ever heard.

"settee" "serviette" - aren't these just pretty interchangable with "sofa" and "napkin"?
( chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:54, closed)

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NO NO NO NO NO.
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:56, closed)

Then I'm awfully glad I'm not you.
quite frankly.
( chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 17:59, closed)

study the mighty Browser, little one
Speaker of eternal truths
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 17:10, closed)

Dinner ladies
at school then. Surely no one calls them 'lunch ladies'?
(rockdoctor, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 17:43, closed)

At my alma mater
they were called waiters.


*may contain traces of lie*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 10:50, closed)

we
did
(furby, Sat 18 Oct 2008, 15:28, closed)

*psst*
"liquorice"
( Azra3l Lubrication Persuasion and Brute Force ™, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 18:05, closed)

*psst*
American English
( Ghoti Fingers, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 18:08, closed)

While we're *psst*-ing
Hasn't that language changed enough to just be called 'American' by now?
(Kendal, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 23:06, closed)

erm
over my cold dead body
(Heggy, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 13:13, closed)

sitting room
aargh, in my parents house it is called the drawing room
(naranjita, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 20:24, closed)

...
I do five of those things :-p Mainly words. lickerish, tishoo, nan, tea and dinner. That's how I speak. But I've got Brummy blood in me, so it's allowed.
(MrBeansHoliday, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 13:37, closed)

Nan
Oh yes.. a definite class indicator.

I was always confused by the children in my primary school who would refer to their "nan". I thought it was short for "nanny", and would wonder how such lower-middle-class people could afford nannies!

It took me a few years to work out that it should have been "gran" - short for grandma/grandmother.
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 17:25, closed)

Personally,
I'm uneasy with "Gran" or "Gramps".
It's Grandma or Grandpa for me.
( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 14:17, closed)

i call both of my grandmothers the same thing.
dead.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 18:52, closed)

I've been saying it wrong?!
"Tissyou" sounds a bit Hyacinth Bucket to me!

And I also thought supper was the meal eaten after dinner.

In my defense, I moved here when I was six months old, so my parents just picked up speech patterns from those around them. Although they now think I sound posh.
(ToysForBigBoys would spread her legs for Nick Clegg., Fri 17 Oct 2008, 20:36, closed)

Tissue is pronounced tishoo.
Only the most desperate social climbers and pucker-lipped bbc newsreaders pronounce it tiss-you. I'm guessing you're not a newsreader.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 17:39, closed)

I am most definitely neither of those
and I'm sorry but saying something like 'scar tishoo' is just plain fucking wrong.

There are helpful pronunciation hints in most dictionaries, you know.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 13:46, closed)

Agreed
Tishoo - tut, tut
( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 14:19, closed)

Never considered that.
You are right.
(Clarabelle is reverting to type on, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 17:15, closed)