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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33"Saying “Pleased to meet you”. Are you, are you really, why? Since we have only just met how can you know. My grandmother was told by her mother (who worked for the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry) to only ever say “How do you do”. Professor Higgins was right."
Professor Higgins was also fictional. I hate the phrase "How do you do". What does it even mean? How do you respond to that question? "I do the doo like Betty Boo"?
"Pleased to meet you" is polite, to the point and makes perfect sense.
If only my great-grandmother had been a skivvy to the chinless classes, then I too could have a superiority complex and use tongue-twisting nonsensical phrases.
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