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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NanOh yes.. a definite class indicator.
I was always confused by the children in my primary school who would refer to their "nan". I thought it was short for "nanny", and would wonder how such lower-middle-class people could afford nannies!
It took me a few years to work out that it should have been "gran" - short for grandma/grandmother.
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Personally,I'm uneasy with "Gran" or "Gramps".
It's Grandma or Grandpa for me.
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@><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 14:17,
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