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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Are these thingscommon? In either sense of the word?
That said, I always help people carry buggies up the stairs.
Then I push them off from the top.
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I think they're pretty commonIt's just people tend to notice the 4 spitting hoodies rather than the one person who buys the homeless bum a sausage roll.
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What aboutthe one that hid the razor blade in it?
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