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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I like thisbut I'm not sure why.
/comes from a long line of Glaswegians.
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Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 10:39,
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BertI read that as 'comes ON a long line of Glaswegians'. I was thinking, 'my god, he's got guts'.
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