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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True...I grew up in a shitty little town in the Midlands where people who'd annoyed the nasty men in other parts of the country would sometimes get moved to as it was a backwater and supposely out of harm's way. I knew this was going on because the kids ended up at my school.
Almost invariably, however, the families would manage to find new nasty men, annoy them, and then either get moved again or, in one or two cases, get killed. There's no helping some people - they won't go anywhere and stay out of trouble.
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