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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My Welsh is so crap as to be nonexistentbut I know "Lloegr am Byth" and will say it to my parents next time they annoy me.
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Maladicta, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 18:36,
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