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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Gah!Darn, I been lurking long enough to know about the spelling, and I checked it 3 times. Corrected!!
Yeah they figured they were having a party in the garden so it must be a garden party. They were slightly miffed at my suggestion it was just a common barbeCue!
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