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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Or...It could be that the Northeners commuting south are quite clean and the Southerners making their way up North are scummy.
They didn't ask where they were from, and from my rather limited knowledge of the rail network it is indeed possible to travel from Newcastle to Portsmouth in under 5 days.
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Or it means that the toilets in northern trains are considerably dirtier than southern ones.
Though, with British trains, I can't imagine there's much in it.
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