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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SconeRhymes with cone, ergo scone.
Scone (gone) surely would be scon, no?
Edit: To confuse the issue, I'm a midlander moolighting in the south, whereby I've found they pronouce it scon, the weirdos. But recalling a time when my parents had some Scottish (or were living in Scotchland) friends down, they were also of the scon type.
(, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 21:14, 1 reply)
no..you're quite right.
The word ends with an 'e' - so rhymes with cone.
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no you're wrong.What about 'gone' 'one' 'done' 'none' ?
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