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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do you own football shirts?I have a selection picked up on holidays of whatever the local team is and I consider it quite the means of ingratiating oneself to the locals.
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Funnily enoughI have a Tunisian one. I haven't even been there though.
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