CommonFreddy Woo writes, "My wife thinks calling the front room a lounge is common. Worse, a friend of hers recently admonished her daughter for calling a toilet, a toilet. Lavatory darling. It's lavatory."
My own mother refused to let me use the word 'oblong' instead of 'rectangle'. Which is just odd, to be honest.
What stuff do you think is common?
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chthonic, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:06)
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there's no t in beachbut you still say it. CH represents two sounds, and one of them is the more palatized "dge", like we say in the small Kentish town of Sandwich, you arrogant cunt.
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Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 18:56,
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Go crawl back under your brich then, troll.
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AhemIt's pronounced 'sangwidges' in God's Own Country.
Common I know, but the adequate descriptive term 'piece' was polluted by the foreign Sandwichness, so it had to be adapted.
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a piece on jeely!canny beat it.
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baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:01,
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