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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Possibly just me being a snobBut I hate it when people I don't know call me "mate". I work in a call centre and I hate it when someone I don't know from Adam drops in to every flaming sentence.
I feel this might be a ranty QOTW.
(, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:37, 3 replies)
You are so rightthat really annoys me too
(, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:50, closed)
<--common as muckI was verbally abused from my girlfriend after saying mate several times to a pizza delivery man. He was quite old for one which possibly made it worse as makes it seem more inappropriate. If I'm working though I'd rather be called mate than a worker.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 0:43, closed)
aaaaliight mate?i have zero attention span, so it takes me ages to remember people's names, as a consequence, i call everyone 'mate'. and i don't care.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 12:44, closed)
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