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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With childI remember as a child my mum telling me off for pointing out a lady was pregnant - "you don't say 'pregnant', you say 'she's having a baby' or 'with child'." Apparently saying 'pregnant' was common.
WTF?
I've asked various people about this over the years and always get confused looks. Has anyone else ever heard of this or was my mum just a little crazy?
(, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 3:24, 1 reply)
My sister's the same.She also made her children say 'toffees' instead of 'sweets' and believes that tattoos always indicate criminality.
Sis indicates her constant disapproval of others' failings with a loud TUT, which we hear a lot.
However, we don't hear much from her about illegitimacy these days, since her 'babyfather' son's had two kids by different women. Funny, that.
(, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 7:40, closed)
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