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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whatsorry how is this common?
Surely this falls under the prospective qotw
"irrational pissy fits"
(, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 17:51, 1 reply)
You're right, I should have posted in pet peeves QOTW..but it is common, lots of people do it.
*do you see what I did there?*
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