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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Er?As an ex-Londoner myself, I have never really cared.
However:
In the year 2000, London was reunited under a single code: 020. The local numbers, however, were extended from seven digits to eight - with the old "7"s and "8"s being tacked on to the beginning of the local numbers.
Same difference, isn't it?
Yes, you might just be able to dial '7' instead of '0207', but are you really THAT fucking lazy?
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Care to explain how?And another thing: I know you think that everybody in the world is from London, but have you ever considered that sometimes you may be giving your number to someone from outside London?
Furthermore, the fact is that only idle fools actually give a damn about the innermost workings of the telephone system.
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tel numbers.why, though, is it that old mother2shoes lives im the USA - and all the numbers shes had have been 10 digits, for a nation of some 300 milion - including area code; why then does a provincial town in the thames valley of 300k individuals need 11 digits? 0118 9xxxxxx?
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Becausethat numbering system encompasses the whole of the UK.
The 020 was because London has such a high population density you couldn't otherwise split it correctly or something.
Everywhere else got the "0" at the start of their area code replaced with "01" and London got "02".
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uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 14:35,
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