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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reactionI'll only put up with so much of this nonsense. I believe it was my brother who adopted this unfortunate turn of phrase (pfft). I remedied the situation after a dozen rounds (give or take) of "She turned 'round and said... then I turned 'round and said... then he turned 'round and walked off..."
I interrupted (how common of me) a little too forcefully with "At which point did you fall over?!"
"Eh?"
"Well, after all of that spinning around, you must have been too fucking dizzy to see straight, never mind stand up."
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