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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Not driving the Landy home from the pubat midnight whilst three sheets to the wind and dressed in wellies, 200 year old tweeds and a Barbour jacket.
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:48,
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