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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these:Xmas decorations on the outside of a house.
Babies with made-up names like "Shonquisha" or "Jayden".
Playing music out loud on a mobile phone in public. Especially if it's shit R&B.
Pink polo shirts.
"At the end of the day".
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urbane legend i have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 0:20,
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My first bornis called Shonquisha Jayden.
How terribly rude of you.
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"at the end of the day" ... aah yessee also "so I turns round to him and says ..."
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Droog is too orangey for crows, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 10:31,
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