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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Not really commonat least I hope not, more unthinkingly racist.
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Bazongaloid, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 21:59,
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Well"Nigger" is synonymous with "common" to a lot of people around here. That's the South for you. Go USA and so forth :(
Actually, there isn't nearly as much tension between classes in America as there are in Britain - so it's not as common to think of things as too common or too posh.
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trintrin has jam for blood, Sat 18 Oct 2008, 3:12,
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