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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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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