Common
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)
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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It's a faux-medievalism...
... for shagging. I could have used "tupping", I suppose. Either would seem about right in a context like this, where the object of my barbs is the sort of person who probably has a family tree hanging in the loo with coats of arms painted on it.
( , Tue 21 Oct 2008, 10:54, 1 reply)
... for shagging. I could have used "tupping", I suppose. Either would seem about right in a context like this, where the object of my barbs is the sort of person who probably has a family tree hanging in the loo with coats of arms painted on it.
( , Tue 21 Oct 2008, 10:54, 1 reply)
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