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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Come over to Virginia.I suspect that this doesn't translate very well over there. Sorry.
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 16 Oct 2008, 18:42,
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Hey don't worryI didn't mean you shouldn't have said it, just wondering why exactly. Never mind!
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