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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People who do, buy or say anything at allthat's in any way different to the way that I do it, or my parents did it when I was growing up.
Especially if said thing is cheaper than the thing we do, buy or say.
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chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 17:37,
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or more expensive.Posh wankers.
This has been a message from Middle Class War.
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But then they aren't commonthey're toffs, or snobs or somesuch.
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chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 17:55,
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