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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my mother's maiden name was hyphenatedbut back when it was hyphenated her family was actually posh
so there
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 18:27,
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