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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AlsoWhy can't people tell the difference from a Birmingham accent to a Black Country accent?
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Terry Oblong There's nobody here but us chickens on, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 21:48,
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Can youtell the difference between someone from Newcastle and someone from Chester-le-Street?
No.
And that's for exactly the same reason.
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Bazongaloid, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 22:02,
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