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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"What" is correctAs was drummed into me by my latin teacher.
"Pardon" or "Sorry" have connotations of apology, of being surprised and perhaps offended, and sometimes of irony.
"What" is far more simple and honest and should not cause offense or be unnecessarily toadying. If you don't want to be abrupt, say "What, didn't catch that dude/me lovely/doctor/matey/m'lud".
(, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 19:47, 1 reply)
Yup, he/she/it/ is[are] rcorrect"Pardon" is a lower middle-class affectation. A simple "What" is inoffensive to well brung up folk like what I am and will suffice perfectly well.
OP - epic fail!
(, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 5:03, closed)
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