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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Baffling pronunciationMy Grandmother pronounced launch (as in boat launch),'larnch'. We didn't question it, as any reference to how a person chooses to speak would also have been seen as irretrievably common.
She also refused to say the words lunch and fiancee.
(, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 19:42, 1 reply)
uncommonThe fact that your grandmother had necessity to say launch, as in boat launch, so often for you to notice that she pronounced it oddly just goes to show that your probably not very common yourself. What does a boat have for launch anyway?
(, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 19:57, closed)
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