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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The exception to thisis of course Sussex, which is a proper uni, while Brighton most certainly isn't
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ExceptionsIndeed - it's really just a rule of thumb. Then there's Oxford Brookes which (a) sounds as if it has rivers in the name (b) used to be (called) a poly and (c) has a far higher proportion of upper class twits than the real university down the hill.
Generations of in-breeding don't make for high intelligence ...
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