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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"Tumba Bloody Rumba"congratu-fuckin'-lations ya bunch of frustrated schoolteachers the lot of ya, have a farkin squiz for yourself that Aussies even have a their own word for a tme-fuckin-sis.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tmesis#Tmesis_in_English
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