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Freddy 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?

(, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:06)
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People who say "grarss" and "barth" and the like.
The word is "grass". How many "r"s do you see? One? Correct. One letter "r". Where is it? After the "g", before the "a". Is there an "r" *after* the "a"? No, there is not.

SO WHY THE HELL DO YOU INSIST ON PUTTING ONE IN?

Bloody peasant, learn to speak English. Oh, and once you've done that, learn to speak at least one other European language. I bloody hate listening to you shouting very slowly at foreign tourists.
(, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 17:58, 11 replies)
That's not being common, you nob
That regional variation.
'Baath' is how it's pronounced in the south and 'bath' oop narth.
(, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 18:11, closed)

get your head out of your arse and learn about the Great Vowel Shift, you northern tosser. You don't rhotically trill all the other r's you see, do you?

Spelling has fuck-all to do with how something is said, so try learning your own language before you recommend a foreign one on top.
(, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 18:18, closed)
Daft southern bastard.
You don't rhotically trill all the other r's you see, do you?
No, because in my first language "R"s are quite soft, not "rolled" with the tongue at the back of the mouth.
(, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 20:09, closed)

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(, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 20:47, closed)
^^^ this
I pronounce it 'grarss' and that most certainly doesn't make me a plebeian. In fact, i refer you to the official "Queen's English".
(, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 18:22, closed)
It turns out,
You're arguing against the received pronunciation of a word, hell its even said like that in Estuary English -possibly the most wide-spread dialect in England!

^True Linguistics Facts.
(, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 18:26, closed)
Are you calling the Queen common?
Because she says grarss and barth.

I supposed you pronounce "cough" ko-uh-g-he, huh?
(, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 18:42, closed)
Well...
... she's descended from a great line of German farmers.
(, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 20:08, closed)
Gr-arse
is common. As is Gr-ass.

Grahss, however, isn't.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 14:27, closed)
Pronunciation
I thought that drawring (drawing) was more annoying.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:36, closed)

So you go strictly by the spelling of the word?

Knife?
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 17:44, closed)

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