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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My Girlfriend is from IpswichAnd tends to say grarss, barth and the like, whereas I'm from the Mighty North and so say grass and bath.
Her Nan was from my part of the world (Birkenhead, I think) and when my GF was a child (really young) she used to try to teach her nan to speak properly, as they do in the south (allegedly)...
She's not stuck up or anything, it just makes me laugh that a child would do that...
(, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 12:38, Reply)
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