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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it's a conundrum this onea regional accent can be quite charming but also utterly indecipherable. I for one, speak beautifully in my soft Dublin brogue but many of my countrymen are gibberish witters.
I dont think it's fair to dismiss regional accents wholesale. Surely the goal is merely to make yourself understood?
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That sounds reasonablebut alas, I am from the midlands, and even a hit of a midlands accent makes people think you are a bit slow.
And I'm on the radio, so I should know these things...
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TheAlmightyBeev, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 14:51,
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Kiippertie, sir?
My youngest lives in the Midlands ('Black Country, Mum, NOT Brum!') and it took her months to stop laughing openly at the locals' speech patterns. How rude.
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Yupbut there's a 'nice' accent and then there's a 'common' one. 'Common' means dropping aitches and Ts and generally slurring.
It wouldn't be a problem if people didn't judge others on the basis of how they speak.
Strangely, I find that if I have to stand up and address a group I speak quite nicely. It's the small talk that trips me up.
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