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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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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