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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Although not posh, I am not common either..but I was bought up by my Mother to refer to certains items by their "proper" names, so I often use the words cutlery, cruet, condiments etc. Though this is just to annoy others around me who I mock for being common.
However the worst is that I pronounce (pronounced correctly of course) the word "fancy" as "farncy" for no apparent reason. I sound like a posh gay twat when I say it, yet I can't seem to say it any other way.
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