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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Get the words right and the pennies will look after themselves.I'm fairly laid back and not much gets me on my high horse, but I do have a thing about multiple mis-pronunciations in the same sentence, viz : "the skellington ekscaped up the chimbley."
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dogzero, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 21:52,
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umactually, if i was having a conversation with someone where they were describing how a skeleton escaped up a chimney, they could be wearing brown shoes with a grey suit and still have my rapt, focussed and entirely uncomplaining attention.
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(reluctant to use the word lol, but)Might be really picky, but it does grate on me when people call it "Expresso" - it's "Espresso", it's not as if it's faster and easier to make than regular coffee, it's because you have to press it down in the machine.
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in irelandthat would be chimmeny not chimbly
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Sounds likeyou've been reading Thomas Hardy novels
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