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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you're absolutely right,the difference between things and alternatives is irrelevantwhere you stand is based on how you see the world.there has been a recent furore our way about the difference between 'the working class' and what my mate grandiosly called 'the underclass',and it can be agreed that the difference is truly amazing.class is irrelevant indeed,but we're talking,i think, about standards of life and attitude towards life.
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