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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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, Reply)
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