Reminds me of England. Using a full range of vocabulary is expected and it's a pleasure to pull the words out of the closet in my brain and put them to good use. Here, I find, working toward the common denominator for better communication is more frequent. It's a credit to my friends that I find their vocabulary more verbose than most and I enjoy it a great deal.

And as far as I'm concerned, it does rhyme with flour. Unless you are British. And we all know how funny they talk. ;)