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 always likedGROLIES - Guardian Reader of Limited Intelligence In Ethnic Skirt
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Oh God...A large part of the late 80's and early 90's were spent avoiding them...
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Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Sat 18 Oct 2008, 14:45,
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