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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IndeedyIf only snobs like Minky actually knew the difference between "being a bit cheap" and "being an insufferable antisocial scumbag", this qotw wouldn't resemble such a good recruiting poster for Al Qaeda.
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i thought you sounded like a lovey bloke until..."I buy socks and make-up from the market"
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spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 21:20,
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