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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I'm about as common as they come, in Londoner form.But the rest of my family aren't. They all have near queens English accents, I don't, I have a mockney accent. (Mockney because you aren't cockney unless born within the sounds of bow bell.. apparently.)
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Jenk Neptune is a pedant and now I can't fit my sig in, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 15:51,
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MockneyNah! Mockney accents are cockney accents that are just for show. Doesn't matter where you are born. If you sound cockney because you think it makes you sound cool then you're a mockney.
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