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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A bit like Chris D'Burghin Lady in Red when he rhymes romance with dance.
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Mrs Entity is in hiding., Tue 21 Oct 2008, 18:53,
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Well now y'seethat'd be OK here Oop North where they're both pronounced the same.
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No it's not okaythere is never any excuse for Chris D'Burgh
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I now seethat she wasn't at the very end of the scale of wrongness I had previously thought she occupied.
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Radio AdsThere was an ad for something on local radio recently which tried to rhyme book with luck. It probably sounded ok as the ad-man sand it to himself in his Hull accent, but then it sounded awful on the radio using people who are not of a local origin.
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sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 21:04,
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