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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Oh christI had a mate in school who was the hugest Hyacinth Bucket-esque snob (for instance, one time he threw a cupboardful of Kwik Save No Frills beans/tomatoes/etc in the bin because they 'weren't Heinz' - luckily he bucked his ideas up once he hit puberty.. I digress). And he prounounced H as "haitch". And would imply that I was very common for pronouncing it "aitch". Of course, with us both coming from the same crappy Liverpool overspill town, we were both common as muck, something he obviously wished he wasn't.
I think he thought it made him sound cultured. It just made him sound like a tit.
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