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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Or worse, off ofAs in, "Look, there's that burd off of the telly!"
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 10:27,
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i love that phraseits a beautiful bastardisation of english. We have a great language that is manipulated very well (by the Brits - no one else) and we create sentences or phrases like that which grammatically are horrible, but perfectly understandable. Its brilliant. Myfavourite is from the creature comforts advert "its very turn on and off-able."
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I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 10:29,
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