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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military pedanty...Any officer in the army over the rank of Ensign would have been referred to as "Mister", by officers of the same or higher rank. Women and enobled civilians would also use this title.
I believe the same was true of Naval officers above the rank of Ensign, but my Naval knowledge is not so good. Of course, there was no Air Force at that time.
One should refer to NCOs by their full rank, never calling them "Sir". Privates are referred to as "Private Smith" or "Smith" - they are, in the eyes of ettiquette, as important as the person who delivered the coal - they obviously existed, but no-one of breeding would know anything about them.
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