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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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People not knowing the alphabet.
I've heard this a couple of times, just after they get past the letter K.

"....HIJK EMUNELO PQRS...."

Oh, and it's 'chimNey' not 'chimley'
and 'suBMarine' not 'sumbarine'
(, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 9:06, 9 replies)
And
It's 'spaghetti', not 'pasketti'.
(, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 9:36, closed)
Some people don't think about their own language.
Someone at work a few jobs ago entered the dining room (portakabin) with a plate of conchiglie bolognese and, when asked what it was, stated that it was going to have been spaghetti bolognese but he'd run out of spaghetti, so had spaghetti shells instead.

Language isn't important to some people beyond communication. I find it staggering to be so disinterested, but he found it incomprehensible that I didn't like football.
(, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 9:52, closed)
CHIMBLEY
is more fun and if anyone disagrees they'll have to go to hopsickle to fix the damage I do to their skellingtons.
(, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 9:41, closed)
Let me
finish my breafkist first.
(, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 13:06, closed)
chim chiminey chim chiminey chim chim cheree
surely?

Has anyone mentioned "paraletic" on this QOTW yet? Jesus fricking Christ that pisses me off.
(, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 9:50, closed)
You have got to be
kidding me. Are any of these real? Who doesn't know their alphabet except 2 year-olds?

Chimley?

Sumbarine?

*FIRES UP CHAINSAW*

*KILLS EVERYONE*
(, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 11:16, closed)
I'm not kidding
You couldn't make it up.
(, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 11:30, closed)
"Who doesn't know their alphabet except 2 year-olds?"
One year olds?
(, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 12:08, closed)
Curiously, no...

(, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 12:55, closed)

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