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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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I look at this qotw
in the same way as I do any other, as a good excuse to attempt to amuse people. I am working class rural Scottish through and through, I was divorced at 27, I have a tattoo (tastefully hidden, mind) and my ex had a tramp stamp, I don't think I could ever be considered "classy", yet there are billions of things I find tacky, low and dammit, downright common. It's human nature, it's why God invented burberry.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:28, 1 reply)
Yeah, again
"Common" to me means "lower class", not "tacky". Meeeh. Maybe I'll just shut up and go away :S
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:32, closed)

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