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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Too trueIt still amazes me that millions of people, including many academics who should know better, would rather ignore masses of evidence that Shakespeare was from Stratford-Upon-Avon and had a grammar school education, then joined the theatre, in order to suggest it was Francis Bacon or Elizabeth I (both of which theories are actually equally daft), rather than admit that a Brummie could have written Hamlet.
For a good example of people who should know better: go here:
www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/sep/09/theatrenews.theatre
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