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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hardly.I have known people from all over the UK, including Liverpool, Leeds and had family from Salford in Manchester - none of them ever used that phrase.
It is the preserve of the common - in the same way that using "summink" instead of "something" is common. No-one I ever met who was halfway civilised never spoke like that - it's something reserved for those in training to appear on Jeremy Kyle.
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