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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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.
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Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 18:18,
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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.
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