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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I was never allowed.......to call the alley round the back of our semi an alley, I had to call it a driveway.
It was a fucking alley
(, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:57, 2 replies)
How didpeople stop you calling it such?
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I believe a lot of guys have a fucking alley behind their semi(, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 19:19, closed)
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