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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ResearchThere was once some research into perception of accents.
Somerset was perceived as simple slow lifestyle. bumpkins.
Birmingham - thick
Newcastle - hardcases
Liverpool - Witty and jokey
Cockney & Essex - Perceived as tossers
Yorkshire - Determined
Scottish - sexy.
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sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 16:02,
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Yorkshire - determinedhas me confused and thinking hard.
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Liverpool=witty and jokeyspot on.
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Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sat 18 Oct 2008, 2:09,
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