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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All this time I've wasted...I didn't realise that the folks who live out in the sticks get so touchy about having an 8 rather than a 7 in their phone number. Some fun (not much, though) to be had at their expense, methinks.
On the other hand, I live in London, my number begins 020 7 (if you must), and I couldn't care less about the convention. I always dial the full code and I shall continue to do so. I doubt that I would do anything useful with the second saved by omitting the area code.
Besides, I have to fill my days somehow and if wasting seconds helps (as does B3ta), rather than being a physicist who takes a very great deal of interest in the world around me and trying to figure out how it works, then so must it be.
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