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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Regional Accents...are surely, by definition, NOT common?
It really does my head in when people say they're common.
Yes, I hate the North-eastern dialect as much as the next man but anything that is a indicator of heritage and history is something to be celebrated, not homogenised.
I'd rather listen to thick Wolverhampton than tedious Estuary or Home Counties, thankyou.
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AlsoWhy can't people tell the difference from a Birmingham accent to a Black Country accent?
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Terry Oblong There's nobody here but us chickens on, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 21:48,
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Can youtell the difference between someone from Newcastle and someone from Chester-le-Street?
No.
And that's for exactly the same reason.
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Bazongaloid, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 22:02,
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Bostin MateWe dow like them suvverners anyow!
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Hear hear!Try being from the Westcountry.
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El Lazarus is calm now, Ish,, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 21:36,
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