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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I supose this fits in with the questionI had an Australian Teacher who would call the well known shopping chain in Australia Ta'rget instead of Target(not sure how to put accents in) she was a stupid tit, walked like a swan and smelt of milk.
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Tar-jayLots of people here do that - some are taking the piss, some aren't.
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enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 23:12,
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House of Tar-jayWe picked it up from a fake-posh girl at school's mum, who really called it that to disguise where she was shopping.
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