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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Modern namesAs mentioned earlier some really odd names come about. I remember when I first started hearing parents calling their kids "Courtney". Now in Hull, there is a Courtney Street. It has a scrapyard.
Also Chelsea, and correct if I'm wrong, but I thought Levi was a boy's name.
I recently heard calling her child "Sky" who had a sister called "India".
Can we not go back to the old days? I've done a bit of family tree research and looking at census records from the mid-1800s, all the men were called William or John and the women were Mary.
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sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 21:52,
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TeddingtonT'was in Teddington about 5 yrs ago I overheard a mother calling for her daugher (Asia and India)
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