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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That patch of green grass at the other end of townWhere anyone can go and walk their dogs, or fly a kite of a windy morning.
I think that's pretty common
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LemonEntryMyDearWatson This time, Moriarty, the hand is on the other foot, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 21:27,
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