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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itchy bitsOne of my major bugbears is people that say itch instead of scratch...
"ohh could you itch my back"
"no, but I'll scratch your itchy back you common slag"
I wonder why I'm divorced at 25 sometimes... I did grow up in a posh little village though, complete with a pub you had to wear a shirt and shoes to enter...
Oh and while I'm on the subject, "Compooter" .... I work in phone tech support (based in the UK, for a "posh" department store, sounds like lon jewis) most of the customers are supposeditly (spelling i know) in the upper 40% of the social chart... BUT THEY CANT SAY COMPUTER!!!
And that really grinds my gears... these are mostly the same people that complain about the guy in the corner shop "looking a bit foreign" but they cannot speak there own language properly!
(typing could be dodgy. New keyboard that im not used to yet)
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SleazyMole Finally has an Icon WOO!, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 0:28,
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Let yourself down at the end there."cannot speak THERE own language". Tsk, tsk. And new keyboard is no excuse for that.
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Ghoti Fingers, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 7:20,
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I was justabout to point out the same thing.
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Compooter.Is em fraam Ipswich?
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