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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with a subtle hintof land mines.
and aids
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Mr Maladicta wears Africa.He's getting something a bit more ... tasteful for Christmas, I feel.
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Maladicta, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 18:37,
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