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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Two thingsFood cooked on the barbecue tastes no better than food cooked indoors.
Your neighbours don't much care for having their houses filled with choking smoke every time the sun comes out.
Common.
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stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 13:47,
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ahhh...that's the problem, our neighbours are 2 miles away, over the common...
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I wasn'ttaking residents of HMP Dartmoor into account.
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stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 14:55,
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