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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Here is a bit of a pet hate of mineI used to work in Chester at a popular Telecom provider who happens to be British. As a temp I worked with a broad cross section of people (posh students and some ne'er do wells as well).
Now for anyone who lives in chester knows, there is a rough estate called the Lache (pronounced like lace but in a Sean Connery Accent)
I was chatting to this one guy (Glenn) and we got chatting to about where we were from and he said he was from Chester and lived in the Lahshay, at mention of this place I had no idea where he was from till one of the other guys piped up with 'Don't you mean the Lache?'
To which Glen gave a silent nod...
I've got some other stories about Glen and when the appropriate QOTW comes up I'll post them!
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ha ha yesi'm not far from Chester we call it the Lazy H
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Winthorpe Sim-Sala-Bim, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 12:25,
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DittoIn Cardiff there's a area called Splot.
It's pronounced Splot by just about everyone, but
I've heared people refer to it as 'Splow'
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Weetobix is a married man, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 14:09,
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Don't forget................Blacon.
I live in Hoole. Apparently Hoole is posh, I didn't realise that when I moved here ten years ago, but it means that a 2 bed terraced costs about the same as a solid gold Roll Royce filled with teenage virgins covered in caviar waving bottle of Bollinger.
Excuse me, I need to lie down for a minute.
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ah, Blacon!When they moved the police station there, I told a Lot of people that it was to save money on petrol.
I think they all believed me.
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Completely Underwhelmed, Sat 18 Oct 2008, 0:41,
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well it does sound very believableit must have been a logistical nightmare before, although they were closer to Lashay
oh and it's called a custody suite not a police station, which sounds very comfortable
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Winthorpe Sim-Sala-Bim, Sat 18 Oct 2008, 13:14,
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BlaconWhat about...
Ellesmere Port
Connah's Quay
Flintshire/Deeside
and in Lancaster, Rylands
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