Common
Freddy 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?
( , Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:06)
Freddy 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?
( , Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:06)
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How about
canapes.
Pronounced ka-napes, rather than ca - na - pes, a la francais.
Makes me giggle when people think that is really how to pronounce it.
( , Thu 23 Oct 2008, 12:21, Reply)
canapes.
Pronounced ka-napes, rather than ca - na - pes, a la francais.
Makes me giggle when people think that is really how to pronounce it.
( , Thu 23 Oct 2008, 12:21, Reply)
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