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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Cafe T AirI was once reprimanded by my girlfriend for referring to the cafetiere as the “coffee plunger thing”.
Personally I thought it was a perfectly accurate description but no, apparently it’s common. Stupid posh people with their French words.
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Actually it's probably better to call it the 'coffee plunger thing'....if you still haven't forgiven the Frenchies for stealing your Sussex farm in 1066.
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cupboardy, Sat 18 Oct 2008, 15:34,
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