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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While we're on about mispronunciationPeople of Ashington... the mispronunciation among the populace drives me to distraction sometimes.
It's SANDWICH.
Not bloody 'sammidge'.
The church of the 'Holy Sepulchre' is not pronounced 'Holy Seplikka'.
And when you're off down to the club for a pint, you're going to the Premier. Not the fucking Primea.
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Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 23 Oct 2008, 12:25,
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AshingtonWithin 6 months I'd had my fill of "Tekkin the derg furra weark to the clerrb".
I had to retreat to Newcastle to be among 'civilised' people.
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To be fairthe place isn't as bad as it used to be.
Not now that I live there, anyway...
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Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 23 Oct 2008, 12:54,
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I'm sure you raise the average IQ by scores.I lived there in the very early 90's when I was a tweenager, so I shouldn't really judge. I do really dislike their particular brand of pronunciation though.
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Which areadid you live in then? I first lived there in the late 80's when I was at college. Had a house on the lovely Ariel Street for a year, then a flat next to what was the Portland.
I now live in what is considered the posh end.
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Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 23 Oct 2008, 13:33,
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But my best friendcalls Sandwich,
home.
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chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 12:45,
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Few things grate on me morethan supposed adults, particularly women, saying "sammich" or calling pasta "sketty". That alone is enough for me to mentally cast them into the cesspool and want nothing more to do with them. She might look like Aria Giovanni and have a sky-high libido and be homed in on me- but if she uses baby talk she's GONE.
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 23 Oct 2008, 13:06,
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Ashington jokeAshington kid has just had his driving lesson and failed. His mate asks "what did ye fail fer, like"?
Lad replies "Ah wiz drivin alang, like, an ah hit a kerb"
"A kerb? Ye divven't fail fu hittin a kerb, man"
"Ye dee when it's berb-a-jerb week".
Translation available by gaz.
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Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 23 Oct 2008, 13:46,
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