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 really don't have a problem with 'common'What gets me is working class people doing a Hyacinth Bouquet.
Had a great example of this last christmas, where, after six years, we finally managed to get my Mum to meet Lady Scaramanga's family.
Watching these two working class titans of motherhood attempting to 'out-posh' each other was disturbing at first, then hilarious, then tedious.
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Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 11:35,
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