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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I'm only pretending to be poshIt was a sarcastic post that bombed.
I have one of the worst accents in the country for stuff like this - Chesterfield. We miss half the letters in words out when speaking.
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Turtle, I think he was snapping at Triley, not you.
Make sure to wash your arse in the barth.
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