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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There's another type that is particularly common to Edinburgh -The posh English accent because they went to a private school even though born and bred in deepest East Scotland. Mental.
To be fair they're not all twats, I've shared a flat with 3 members of a family and they all went to private school and there's not a pashmina or boating shoe in sight. Kudos to their parents...
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