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?
(
chthonic, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:06)
« Go Back | See The Full Thread
off ofI always thought it was a ghastly americanism, but apparently what we consider american english has stayed more true to the english we had around the times the countries went their separate ways then english english has. So off of would have been the correct was of saying it in Georgian England.
(, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 13:40, Reply)
« Go Back | See The Full Thread