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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My son, a PhD physics student,currently lives in California.
His origins involve the worst street on a rough northern council estate and education at ordinary local schools and college.
So although Oxford knocked the edges off his accent, he doesn't exactly speak RP.
The Yanks love how he talks though - they find it cute. Can't get enough of it.
Gotta love'em for it.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 8:55, Reply)
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