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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Just noticedAbusing public transport facilities.
news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/6/newsid_2511000/2511653.stm
Brewing your own beer.
www.duchyoriginals.com/traditional_ale.php
Thinking that all foreigners don't understand English while you abuse them in full earshot.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Phillip
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