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 was going to comment that you seem to be getting confused between "common" and "poor"However since you've included "eating at motorway service stations" here you can't be... only the very rich can before to do that!
(, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 11:38, 1 reply)
indeed...You can still be common whether or not you can afford something...?
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