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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people using myself and yourselfin anything other than the correct way.
*worries that his carefully hidden snobbiness will be coming out way too much in this qotw*
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:39,
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me tooalthough I've already blown it big time.
Ah well.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:41,
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'myself'totally agree - and people who say "I am the kind of person who..."
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Oooh yesthis bugs the hell out of myself .... only kidding. This rather annoys me.
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Do people actually do this?I don't do it myself. Hmmm it is tricky.
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Bugger.I just posted a similar whine before I reached this one. (Yes, I'm reading through them all. Work is quiet today.)
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