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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The people I know with piercingsare actually pretty solidly middle-class. Go 'round their house and Radio 4 is coming out of every orifice in the building, all day, every day. And the father is a Labour party member, or something like that. So I wouldn't count piercings, nor many tattoos, as being common. But that's just me. "Common" and "chav" are just labels, after all, and shouldn't be relied on.
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