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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I'm completely with you on this.I live in a town which often seems more like a university with a town attached (clue: it isn't Oxford) and the students have just got back from summer. The clouds of "rah rah supervision rah rah DoS rah rah *snortlaugh* bop...so RANDOM!" emanating from the vast herds of Ollies and Jemimas crowding the pavements makes the walk to work less of a journey and more of an exercise in stopping myself from kicking their larynges out of their throats.
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