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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took, take, brought, bring... brungI used to live with a girl who would chastise me for saying I'd bring things: "I'll bring the wine" or "I'll bring the cake".
"No Cannonfodder", she'd say, "You'll take the wine and the cake that's the proper English".
See also brought and took.
Eventually I stopped letting her have any of the things I'd brought.
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Funnily enoughI have an Irish friend who picks me up for exactly the opposite reason. His logic is that 'bring' means 'to transport from A to B', whereas 'take' is 'to seize'. So he'd always bring something along. He'd even bring it away again.
Language is odd.
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 12:19,
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You'd take it awaybut bring it from home.
To bring from A to B doesn't sound right to me, that's another use for take.
So I'd *take* a cake from home to work.
When at work, I'd *bring* a cake from home.
When the cake at work was finished, I'd *take* it home.
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uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 13:04,
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AhemYou'd take a cake home that was finished?
Internally, I suppose...
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 13:44,
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