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Freddy 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?

(, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:06)
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Erm
You've misspelt Somerset.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 14:09, 1 reply)
maybe he's from there
thus proving his point?
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 14:10, closed)
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Thats how they say it, sommmmerset! I'll edit it to remove future mockery.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 14:12, closed)
I think it's
Sommmer-seeeh
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 14:14, closed)
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Well possibly but it's hard to type how an accent sounds.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 14:17, closed)

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