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Freddy 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?

(I helped save b3ta! chthonic, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:06)
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Slough suburbs
No one actually lives in Slough - people will tell you they live in Cippenham, Eton Wick or Windsor..

Do these people think that by making up a slightly posher suburb it will make them sound less common? Probably happens with every big town..

And yes, I do know that Slough is a complete shit hole
(mejt, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 10:45, 6 replies)
Is it pronounce 'Slaow' or 'Sluff'?

(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 11:02, closed)
I live in Slough
Very close to Burnham, Farnham Common and Windsor, respectively, but I do live in Slough.

/proud
/gets stabbed
(I helped save b3ta! SuperWeasel slightly better than the average weasel, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 11:08, closed)
It's good that you're proud..
My Nan lives in Chalvey - but that sounds worse than Slough..

I live in Gerrards Cross (i'm not posh though) but no one ever knows where that is so I just say "Slough"
(mejt, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 11:15, closed)
It's the opposite...
...in Cambridge. If you live in the suburbs (they did used to be seperate villages)such as Cherry Hinton, Arbury, Trumpington, Chesterton you just tell people you live in Cambridge. I'm pretty sure Grantchester is an exception to that rule still!
(cmouse is pondering about life in other jobs, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 11:59, closed)
Probably for the best.
When people find out I live in Arbury, they usually respond with a "But you're so middle class!" (I'm not, by the way - just reasonably well-spoken and a bit of an arty, pretentious wanker.) This is then followed by a ongoing and thinly veiled fear that I may knifecrime them for smack money.
(moglin shall make you writhe in her cage of torment on, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 12:12, closed)
Nobody lives in Selly Oak near Birmingham either
it's either Bournville or Bournbrook
(I helped save b3ta! h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Fri 17 Oct 2008, 12:19, closed)

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