
Freddy 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?
( , Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:06)
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no sweeping exits
no hollywood endings
flowers and football tops
don’t mean a thing.
my baby is six feet under
just another number
my daughter without her brother
( , Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:48, Reply)
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