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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Ok to clarifyI don't have any problem with people speaking while in the bath on the phone.
I think a lot of it depends on whom you're speaking to and for how long. I've lived with a couple of different people in recent years who would go to the toilet whilst on the phone to the Queen. Not that they would get the chance but I'm sure you get the point.
Your sister who doesn't sound is always listening isn't nearly as bad.
No1 is more acceptable yes and to cap I will tell of my friend in college. We had been discussing an essay in great detail for around ten minutes, and the conversation was about to finish when I realised he had just flushed the toilet then told me he had just done a no.2!
Why he didn't wait I'll never know.
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