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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There's no such thing as "inner" or "outer" London as far as the numbers are concernedNumbers beginning with "8" can also be located in central London.
If my number is (020) 8123 4567 - then you have no idea where I am located: Central or Greater London. The 020 simply tells you that it is London.. full stop.
(, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 20:51, 1 reply)
Yes, there isYou CAN have an 020 7 or 020 8 number anywhere in London, however the overwhelming majority of 020 7 numbers are inner London, and 020 8 numbers outer London.
When they changed the 01 prefix to 071 and 081, the 071 numbers were for inner London, and the 081 for outer London. What your definition of inner and outer is doesn't really matter - there was a rough cutoff point (around the boundary of London transport Zones 2/3) where you went from 071 to 081. When it changed to 020 this pattern was continued.
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