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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What is 'common' anyway?You are right, having no money doesn't equate to being of lesser social value. Thank you for providing a timely reminder of humanity back into this week's quite grimy question. What is 'common' anyway? Is it an expression of the coarse equation in our minds that poor=uneducated=antisocial=a big fat fail at life? Anyone, regardless of wealth and education can be ill-mannered and anti-social.
Being fairly new to these shores I doubt I will ever really get my head around the (so often self imposed) stratification of British society.
But as for caravan holidays, big Yay there! One of the nicest holidays I have ever been on in this country is to a caravan park on the Cornish coast with a large group of friends. All we did was cook, eat, drink, laugh, and play silly games around the dunes. Brilliant, and cost us absolutely bugger all.
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