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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Part 4Basingstoke, Swindon, Milton Keynes, Borehamwood, Fareham, Gravesend, Nottingham, Birmingham, Trowbridge, Andover, High Wycombe, Slough, Northampton, Colchester, Sheffield, Luton, Bedford, Corby, Bexhill, Crewe, Newbury, Coventry, Leicester, Grimsby, Telford, Merthyr Tydfil, Staines, Tamworth, Didcot.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 10:20, 5 replies)
i would extend your listto include "everywhere". See my earlier post. All towns in britain are common.
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I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 10:21,
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You mention Basingstoke, Andover & Newbury, but not ReadingA town famous for making biscuits, biscuits for common people to dunk in their tea. By your ommission I assume you love Reading and dunking biscuits like the common oik that you are.
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Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 10:28,
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Don't forget bricks and bulbsThe other two of the three 'B's. Bricks, for building commoners' houses, and bulbs, for growing common plants.
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Andover is fine, Have lived here for nearly 40 yearsAnyway, it can't be that bad if Keith Chegwin was stocking up at our Tesco the other week. Hmm, maybe my case is flawed, but i did beat him to the empty checkout.Ha Ha.
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Itsallsugar is made up of bits of names, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 10:39,
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did anyone else read that with....The silent sentence at the start that said "The train at platform 4 will be calling at...."
:)
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