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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a turner seascape, perhaps?the face of the madonna?
an undiscovered shakespearean sonnet?
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Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sat 18 Oct 2008, 1:46,
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it's just as well i can't hear you.it's just as well i can't hear you calling me tetchy. you know what happens when you call me tetchy.
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Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sat 18 Oct 2008, 15:38,
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gets board from wall-- writes 'TETCHY' on it/coat
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oh, nodidn't i tell you? didn't i warm you what would happen if you called me tetchy?
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Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 3:21,
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