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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Either way is wrongas they're Scottish and the Jocks pronounce it 'scoo-un'.
(, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:46, 1 reply)
I just tried to say it like that and I sounded like the Queen mocking the Scottish
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