
Freddy 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?
( , Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:06)
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and who has recently been found murdered, though.
( , Mon 20 Oct 2008, 17:00, 2 replies)

and feel rather guilty as though I've invaded her privacy now. It's awful. How can a young girl go missing for 18 months without anyone seemingly realising?
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