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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Is this actually someone's dissertation subject?If I were studying some pointless subject, say sociology, at a former polytechnic (see what I did there?), then this QOTW would be an absolutely perfect way of getting a shit load of raw data from thousands of people.
I mean, apart from stories about drinking, I can think of nothing that will send a load of Brits (due respect to our overseas readers) into an absolute frenzy of indignant posting more than a QOTW concerning what is essentially the Great British Class System.
Brilliant.
*Goes off to have his tea on the settee in front of the telly*
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