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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The word in question is 'daiquiri'.I'm from the east end of London but currently living up north. My accent has softened greatly since I came here but it comes back again if I'm angry, drunk, or tired. So we moved from a pub to a cocktail-bar\club hybrid one night and I said to the bartender,
"Awright mate, can I get a banana dai-query?"
"A what?"
"A dai-query." I read from the menu about it being a martini based banana cocktail.
He laughs and laughs and then says "You mean a dackary?"
"Nah, I said dai-query, but fuck it, I'll have a dackary instead."
Well, I got one...
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Reid got it going on like Donkey Kong, Sat 18 Oct 2008, 3:35,
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