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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drinking tea with a mealCalling lunch dinner and supper tea.
Pansies.
Saying toilet rather than loo.
Saying couch not sofa.
Saying lounge not living room.
And many other unfounded and frankly ridiculous things that really have no bearing on modern life at all except as a way of lampooning someone that had a slightly different upbringing. This works both ways.
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 10:24,
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