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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Try telling Colin Meloy thatwww.last.fm/music/The+Decemberists/_/The+Chimbley+Sweep
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ma0sm, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 14:04,
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That song is what I immediately thought ofLove the song, despise it when people say the word in real speech.
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