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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My guess...Is that we're dealing with someone who's - at most - 21, who's been privately (and expensively) educated, probably lives somewhere in the home counties, wears brown trousers out of choice, aspires to be a partner in an accountancy firm, watches arts programmes on BBC4 without really understanding them, secretly admires Melanie Phillips and Quentin Letts... and is called Henry.
Just a guess.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 10:20,
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You meanthis is an alter ego of The Goat?
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