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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Ooh, goodness.I remember when I was about 15, I suddenly started to realise that not everyone's house was the picture of middle class regime and efficiency that my own was.
I was faily embarrassed once by a counter-admonishment from a friend after I'd criticised the way he held his wine glass (well it was bloody white wine, you don't put your stupid fat warm hands all over it...).
But worse was when I found out that some people at my school didn't have gravy boats or pudding forks or even soup spoons. How the hell did these people eat?
I hadn't considered that measuring jugs and dessert spoons might be the answer to these quandaries...
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Malchick, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 9:20,
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