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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Exceptthat porcelain is fired to around 1200 degrees centigrade during manufacture, so a bit of boiling water is unlikely to do much damage. It can only be made into such delicate cups because of its immense natural strength. Putting a spoon in it is more likely to make you tip it over than prevent cracking.
I reckon even if you stored your porcelain cups in the freezer, they'd be ok if you poured boiling water into them - though I'll let someone else do the imperical research.
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Sorry, I should have said bone-china not porcelain.My bad
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