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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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!
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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.
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