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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100%With you on that one.
I was accosted for it during my 3 years of uni, lived with 11 different people and they all called tea dinner, dinner lunch and even used supper.
(, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 18:27, 1 reply)
Hold on...
...surely if dinner means the main meal of the day, then aren't northerners being MORE posh by having their main sit-down meal in the middle of the day, where only fancy non-working posh gits have the time to have it, whilst all the southerners have their main meal at the end of the day, after work, when they've got time to have it?
Or...does it mean that anyone who eats breakfast-dinner-tea doesn't work a daytime job? ^_^
*is from south, lives in north, prefers it here...but still can't call lunch "dinner"*
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 16:46, closed)
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