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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at every world cupjust before the first round knock out ING-GURRR-LUNDD , ING-GURR-LUNDD , ING-GURR-LUNDD , ING-GURR-LUNDD and so on
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At leastit never lasts very long... as with the flags on cars/hanging out the window, etc...
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Moey, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 11:36,
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It DoesEngland is derived for 'Angle-land', in other words Land Of The Anglo-Saxons.
So stuff it, someone-who-is-slightly-less-pompous-than-me
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ousgg is not seeking approval, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 12:03,
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I'll give youbloody angle-land, sonny.
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gareth_alien will be human again at, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 14:34,
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