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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I was...taught in school that it should be 'Haitch' and it was common to pronounce it 'Aitch'. I am confused now.
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VandenPlas can't think of anything clever - no change there!, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 12:27,
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SchoolingDid you go to a catholic school by any chance?
Cos I just looked this up and apparently in Ireland, it is taught as 'aitch' in protestant schools and 'Haitch' in Catholic.
So I appear to have just branded all Irish Catholics as common. That may not have been my wisest move.
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scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 12:45,
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NoJust a regular non-religous school.
Also in addition to Sahara Desert's post below, my husband pronounces it as 'Haitch' but with a soft H at the beginning. He's from Portsmouth way.
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VandenPlas can't think of anything clever - no change there!, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:19,
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Portsmouth?I'm trying to restrain from commenting, being from the other end of the M27... (!)
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