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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Also,We need another definition for people who spend their entire lives working in Call Centers as that doesn't class as "working class" in my (probably old-fashioned) book!
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uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 11:22,
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What...does it class as, then?
"In MY opinion that's not REAL work...ing class"?
Would you prefer it that they sat round at home bemoaning being skint all the time because they can't get a job elsewhere for whatever reason?
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