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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Or evengoing on holiday to a location where it is usual for people to wear football shirts!
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:25,
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Exactly.Equally unacceptable.
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