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 driving through a bit of Bristolmaybe Filton?
"It looks nicer here than it used to"
"Yeah, they took the furniture and broken cars out of the front yards"
(, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 17:12, 2 replies)
Sounds like Horfield to meRight next to Filton, and named for what you're likely to find there...
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YeahHorses are dirty
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