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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Ahthe voice of brew wisdom
(is it common to call a cup of tea a brew?)
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Droog is too orangey for crows, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 9:39,
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I suppose 'brew' on its own would be.A 'brew of Tieguanyin' or a 'brew of Lapsang Souchon' wouldn't be.
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