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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cockbrushi mean tuxedo as in TUXEDO - otherwise I'd say black tie. I know the difference.
The cutsie, nasty velvet jobs with bow ties and white ruffly shirts that are apparently 'darling' on children with gelled-up hair. Belm.
Like this: www.bhs.co.uk/mall/departmentpage.cfm/bhsstore/131233/1/1
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ApologiesWas a knee-jerk reaction to the word without stopping to think you might be using it for ironic effect (I posted something earlier about teenagers wearing "tuxedos" to "proms").
At my cousin's wedding a year ago the bride's nephew, who could have been anything up to 6, was in one of those outfits, topped off with gelled-up mohican.
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