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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hot gay history teacher once told usthat it is very hyacinth bou-quet and climbing middle class to say "dessert" and that one should always refer to it as "pudding". this stuck with me as i was impressionable and in love, and i can't bear the word "dessert" now.
also, total pearoast, but you love it, bee-atches. my parents had friends called the sidebottoms, who actually insisted on it being pronounced as "sid-ee-both-am".
if it bothers you that much, just change it ffs.
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rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 9:35,
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WidebottomReminds me of a tale a friend of mine told, when he worked in a call centre. He asked to speak with a Mrs Widebottom and she, rather indignantly, corrected him by saying, "It's pronounced widdy-botome!"
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Definitely puddingI love the word “pudding”; it conjures up images of chocolate covered chocolate cake with lashings of chocolate. “Dessert” is such a sterile word and certainly doesn’t give me that warm chocolaty feeling.
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Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:00,
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