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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the phrase 'what for' is common around where i grew upexample
Mother : 'you'll get what for if you don't cut that out.'
My grandmother,in a moment of self-mockery,once told me at the age of eight to quit whatever-the-hell-i-was-doing by saying 'you'll stop that or you'll get what for.'
we looked at each other for a moment,her sternly staring at the brat i was,me staring back defiantly at this stern old woman,and then we both fell about laughing.
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