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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As an aside...As the Government is putting loads of money into the bankng system and taking shares in all the major mortgage lenders, does that mean that if your house is mortgaged through the Halifax you now live in a council house?
(, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 16:36, 2 replies)
NoBecause councils are local authorities, not the central government.
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KersaI Missive Free Michael Shields! with Monday's Liverpool Echo, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 17:06,
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err..but it is all tax payers money and it does mainly come down to the councils from central government (excluding council tax) so really it would make them houses paid for from centeral government funding or "council" houses.
I refuse to spell corrctly today as it is pink outside.
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