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's oddI happened to be perusing the archives earlier and found this:
www.b3ta.com/questions/peeves/post154704
To reiterate my agreement with Le Penseur:
Oh dear Christ, yes.
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