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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Sitting in the pub ...... taking your shoes off and picking your feet, absent-mindedly ...
Talking loudly in restaurants (inc swearing)
Burger King and Maccy D's
Reverse snobbery where ignorance is paraded as a badge of working class authenticity (see 'Tam Cowan' the Scottish 'restaurant critic' and 'personality')
Bling
Chelsea Football Club
etc
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writerblock ... embedding disabled by request on, Sat 18 Oct 2008, 8:45,
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Reverse snobbery and ignorance...hell yes. See also Chris Moyles.
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