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Freddy 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?
( , Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:06)
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Watching 'Strictly Come Dancing' is deeply common. What makes it even more common (for those of us that pronounce English correctly) is that ghastly female co-presenter constantly talking about 'cooples', 'joodges', 'resoolts' etc. I bet she went to a comprehensive and not to a boarding school. Why can't she shut her common face?
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that's an acceptable northern accent. You should hear mine - you'd have an apoplexy.
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Feel free - have a wank if you like.
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regional with common. Do you expect americans and australians to speak RP?
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she is being porked by Vernon Kay, I still would regardless of what she sounds like!!
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