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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Saying 'pudding' is posh, actuallyIt's much more common to call it 'dessert' and as for eating it with a fork? That's just affected. What if there's custard?
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 9:12, 1 reply)
FantasticSo I am posh then! I'm off to hunt some foxes in that case.
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