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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Only airports and hotels have loungesIf in doubt, call it a sitting room. No-one seems particularly offended by that. Apart from my 'drawing room' mother, but I can't bring myself to call an Ikea sofa in a big room with a kitchen 'the drawing room'.
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