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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There's nothing likegiving an acceptance speech at an award ceremony and showing your ignorance.
at one such event i used the word 'awry'. my entire life i'd pronounced it as "aww-ree" and nobody corrected me. then i used my pronounciation on stage to great snickering and muttering amongst the audience.
...shame....
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you're not aloneIt's a word you hear said, and see written down, but you never link the two.
I was the same with epitome. I pronounced it eppy-tome.
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sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 9:00,
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I'v e heard, on radio, from an educated book-plugger,the word 'misled' pronounced as 'missuld'. That's more ignoranter that 'awree', which you could pass off as the way your Scots granny said it.
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Done 'em bothsigh
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SuperfluousI pronounced it Su-per-flu-us rather than superf-luous
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awry was one of my gaffes tooyou're not alone
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Fathter Puddytat Kill Kill dat widdle boid is mine on, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 13:40,
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