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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WidebottomReminds me of a tale a friend of mine told, when he worked in a call centre. He asked to speak with a Mrs Widebottom and she, rather indignantly, corrected him by saying, "It's pronounced widdy-botome!"
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