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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Common? You don’t know the half of it!I don’t talk about this much - but there were a couple of occasions in the early 90’s when I very nearly had to resort to…...
Public Transportation!
I call that period of my life ‘The Dark Times’, and no doubt the story of my suffering and sacrifice will serve throughout my frail dotage as a reminder to keep the feet of my grandchildren firmly on the ground.
(, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 15:23, Reply)
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