Really? Gosh. I've never consciously heard you say 'couch', and I would have sworn I didn't know anyone who actually said it in normal conversation. I can only imagine that because the impression of it in my head is so irredemably poncy, whereas my friends obviously are not, I have a filter which preserves my own internal world-view, however flawed, in the face of reality ;-) Which is very telling! (I think this is supposed to be a compliment to you, by the way, rather than an insult...)
I did have teachers who tried to persuade me to say "toilet" and "pardon", but was bolshy enough to ignore them ;-) In fact I had a rather traumatic experience at first school with a teacher who wouldn't let me go when I asked to go to the loo, and then seemed to think I was taking the mickey (I nearly wrote something else there which would have been an unfortunate pun) when I corrected myself to "lavatory".
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Date: 2008-01-04 07:58 pm (UTC)I did have teachers who tried to persuade me to say "toilet" and "pardon", but was bolshy enough to ignore them ;-) In fact I had a rather traumatic experience at first school with a teacher who wouldn't let me go when I asked to go to the loo, and then seemed to think I was taking the mickey (I nearly wrote something else there which would have been an unfortunate pun) when I corrected myself to "lavatory".