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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ActuallyI think the mods will let this run longer than usual, just to annoy us.
It's an interesting little experiment in social attitudes though, the way the last two QsotW have been juxtaposed!
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 9:27,
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