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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FACTSWhen the telephone was invented there was no etiquette concerning how to answer.
The first words proposed were Ahoy-hoy but then I think it was decided that that was a bit gay.
They then thought of something along the lines of 'please speak' but that didn't really work.
So they made up a whole new word 'hello'.
Before this Hello was not used as a greeting. The word Hullo existed as an expression of surprise, as in 'Hullo, what's this?'. Spelling it with an e was invented for use with the telephone.
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Mrs Entity is in hiding., Thu 23 Oct 2008, 9:13,
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