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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I actually* once met the designer of the Ford KaAnd he told me it is pronounced to rhyme with "Ha!"
*may not actually be really true
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They called it that......because they couldn't fit "heap of shit you wouldn't want to be seen driving in a thousand years" on the back.
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