
Freddy 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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that they are so much cheaper than Sainsbury's (my two choices other than Lidl), but i hate evryone who shops there and everyone works there.
One day the till jockey was talking on his mobile while serving me. Unsurprisingly he scanned four things twice.
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