
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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...maybe she'll meet a man called Allen..... Allen Key.
( , Tue 21 Oct 2008, 11:02, 1 reply)

there are 2 Allen Keys on the electoral roll, though they appear to be a bit on the old side for her...
Shame, it'd be a good combination.
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