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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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Yeah
now we know you speak posh!!

Grarse = Grass
Clarse = Class

tee hee
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 9:20, 1 reply)
I speak very posh
when the occasion demands it.

Although my parents are both Londoners, I was raised on the Essex/Suffolk border and have seen the local dialect wiped out by the ever encroaching hideousness that is Estuary English.

As a result, I have an accent as phony as Tony Blair's handshake.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 9:50, closed)

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