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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Bovril? BOVRIL?'TIS THE DRINK OF...
I think you know where I'm going with this.
Anyway, if that's who I think it is, I'm amused by the image of her being quite excited at the prospect of marmite. There's just something quintessentially British about getting excited about slightly mediocre things.
(Though I can't see how Bovril is high-class anyway.)
(, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 21:52, 1 reply)
I wantsome borvil on toast right now.
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