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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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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