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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a) anybody who puts the word "actually" in a "factual" statement is talking out of their arseb) the idea of splitting a word and inserting another in there is called Tmesis, and happens in all forms of English, as well as other languages.
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Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sat 18 Oct 2008, 15:38,
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Abso-smegging-lutely rightOr asbo-smegging-lutley if you're talking about the common folk.
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Tmesisis the only word in the English language that begins with "tm". Hurrah for QI!
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"Tumba Bloody Rumba"congratu-fuckin'-lations ya bunch of frustrated schoolteachers the lot of ya, have a farkin squiz for yourself that Aussies even have a their own word for a tme-fuckin-sis.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tmesis#Tmesis_in_English
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