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 two cents.Somebody told me this years ago but I have no idea as to the truth of it.
"Scones" were invented by the Scottish way back when, when they were made unsweetened and made from oat meal not (flour) corn. (My memory is failing here but I think I recall (WTF)) that eating scones had something to do with the "Stone of Scone" which was an ancient Scottish ceremony site (like a coronation stone). And one pronounces scone in "Stone of Scone" like it rhymes with "gone". SO if the Scotish did invent scones, and the tale is true, then we should follow their example thus it is "Scone" rhymes with gone.
(Mass apologies to all the Scots if this tale is full of errors. )
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ahhh....but.... . . the Scots pronounce 'Scone' as in the Stone of Scone as 'scooooooon'.
just to balls things up further
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As a bona fide Scot...I pronounce Scone (as in bready thing) like I pronounce 'gone'.
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whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 14:59,
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