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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wogs...much like black people can call each other 'niggers' but no-one else dare call them that...?
I've lived in Oz for 4 and a half years now and it still always makes me cringe when I hear people talking about wogs. I can accept that it's not generally meant in a derogatory racist way but it sounds awful!
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