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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Learned & Lent(IIRC) People who live in parts of the country with a dialect derived from Old Norse (basically, where the Vikings landed, so where rivers are called burns and there are villages that end in Thorpe and Thwaite) can get away with 'learned' because it is from the Old norse 'laernen' - meaning to teach, in a way that changes their live (/IIRC).
So 'I learned him not to take my red sauce without asking' would be - round my way - perfectly acceptable. Particularly if you'd left him a 'special' bottle and laughed as he spat it out.
(Same applies to lend as borrow in places with old Saxon-derived dialects).
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