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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.Billy Connolly talks about this. The fact that the working class and the aristocracy get on well (or used to when the class divide was more distinct) and understand one another, but that it was the "ones in the middle" who don't get it.
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browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 9:08,
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