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's a good one...You know that stack of bricks that goes up the side of the house? The one that's connected to a fireplace and guides smoke outside?
It is NOT called a "chimbley".
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:25,
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related to this...It's "specific", not "speffic" or "pacific" - that's an ocean, you twats.
Also, "like" requires a similie in the sentence - it's not an adjective: "I was like and he's was like...I was like whatever" is not a sentence.
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RidiculousYou'll be saying that the big grey snouty creature at the zoo isn't called a heffalump next.
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Awwwww,but the word chimbley is unutterably cute.
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Try telling Colin Meloy thatwww.last.fm/music/The+Decemberists/_/The+Chimbley+Sweep
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ma0sm, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 14:04,
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That song is what I immediately thought ofLove the song, despise it when people say the word in real speech.
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Ora bloody "Chimeney" as my Ex used to refer to them.
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