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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?

(I helped save b3ta! chthonic, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:06)
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A list of things that aren't common enough:
Common courtesy
Common knowledge
Common sense
the usage of the word "tomfoolery"
(The Oscillating Gibbon is eating curried squid, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:19, 15 replies)
?
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(I helped save b3ta! The Scrunt Wants a Dozen Pints, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:22, closed)
I approve so much
I now require new underpants.
(Bearded Whumpus In chav Britain, schoolgirl offers sweets to YOU!, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:26, closed)
Can we also have "jiggery-pokery"?
A particular favourite of mine.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:32, closed)
?
I have just returned from some 'tom-stoolery' in the bathroom.


Rats, I just realised that talking about WCs is common.
(powervator and NONE SHALL PASS, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:33, closed)
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I like 'tomfoolery'. I also like 'twilight' and 'hooplah'. Lets bring back good words from the past! My flatmate refered to dusk as 'the gloaming' the other day, which makes it sound much more interesting!
(G-Lo, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:38, closed)
clumsiness
People should excuse light clumsiness with "whoops-a-daisy"

Light clumsiness such as stumbling on a doorstep or bumping into someone.

Not heavy clumsiness such as losing a limb to agricultural machinery or dropping a tray of anthrax and sarin.
(I helped save b3ta! sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:44, closed)
I'm quite fond of
a) shenanigans, and;
b) gusset.
(I helped save b3ta! Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:55, closed)
*Click*
For tomfoolery
(robbersdog, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 16:19, closed)
I like
Discombobulated as a word. Partly because if people ask what it means, they are.
(I helped save b3ta! MatJ LOOK, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 16:23, closed)
Damn skippy.
Also, I see your "tomfoolery" and raise you a "gallimaufry".
(Astatine, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 16:47, closed)
Well played.
Also, I'm partial to "yowza" and "rannygazoo". They go well together and are uncommonly common.
(douchebarge, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 17:20, closed)
and let's give two hips and a hooray for
malarky
(I helped save b3ta! seeballs Doo da da doo da da doo da da doo, da da doo da do, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 18:12, closed)
another neglectologism
Personally, I can't get enough of 'gewgaws' - they're everywhere!
(in-knock-you-us, Sat 18 Oct 2008, 12:56, closed)
This thread
Has some truly amazing words in it
(The Oscillating Gibbon is eating curried squid, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 8:44, closed)
And yet nobody has thus far mentioned
"Gobbledygook."

(Possibly because it's no longer polite to refer to Vietnamese turkeys in this way.)

Sorry...
(LongJohnBaldry, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 18:14, closed)

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