toomspj wrote:I mean really, who cares ??
Paul
Personally I don't, but, judging by some of the posts in this & other threads on the subject, quite a few do. Is that not in it's self a good enough reason to avoid the phrase?
In a similar way, our neighbors have a daughter who's name is Georgina, which inevitably gets shortened to Georgie, I think she actually prefers it & that is how I had always referred to her. However, a while back her mum, shall we say 'explained' that she had named her daughter Georgina, if she had wanted her called Georgie that is what she would have named her! Now knowing this, & despite even members of her family calling her Georgie, I always refer to her as Georgina when talking to her mum, it seems only courteous, & I wouldn't wish to deliberately upset anyone.
No matter how trivial something may seem, if you know it's going to wind someone up, is it not better to just avoid going there?
That said, I do enjoy a good 'debate'