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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Because of the racistconnotations of the word. It's used to describe people from the indian subcontinent in a similar way as the word nigger is used to describe black people.
So from that point of view it does make sense.
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*Delurk*On top of the racist connotations I thought (but I could be wrong) that part of the reason that some groups in Britain consider it especially offensive is because it tends to be used for anyone from that region and some people don't like being confused with their country's mortal enemies.
I've seen similar things with people calling some Scots 'English', Scousers 'Manc Bastards' and Canadians 'American' and there's not even a nuclear stand off in those cases. Yet...
*insert generic length apology here*
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ElParrot, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 0:52,
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althegeordie..."nigger"?I thought nougat was pronounced noo-gar :)
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DammitI've gone and shown how common I am.
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