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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Yes,but it's completely unnecessary and overused, and generally marks the speaker as either a TV newsman or a pretentious wanker. Just like saying "Someone has left his or her briefcase on the train" instead of "Someone has left their briefcase on the train." It just sounds awkward and unnatural.
Sorry 'bout that rant, I need a coffee something awful.
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WellI agree that 'his or her' in your example is superfluous. But while 'leverage' might be an often misused term it is still a valid and necessary one, in business at least. For example, we probably wouldn't be in this financial turmoil if it wasn't for so many greedy people leveraging borrowed funds.
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enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 1:21,
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