
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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therefore you are tarred with the same brush im afraid!
we have a depot in West Bromwich and enjoy nothing more than taking the piddle out of the funny sounding yam yams
( , Fri 17 Oct 2008, 14:41, Reply)
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