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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Yeah, but...1) I'm so used to hearing it tht way that by the time I've mentally knocked the 020 off the number, I might as well have dialled it
2) Most Londoners weren't born and raised in London - when I lived in my home town I never dialled the local code but everywhere else (including outside London) I just have, as a matter of habit, whether I needed to or not
3) When you're using a mobile, (which must account for what, 50% at least of calls now?), you need the full code, so it's hardly unreasonable for people to say 020...
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