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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Boccle.It's a bit like people who say ickle instead of little..
(, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 11:16, 1 reply)
It's like people trying to be.............funny and failing miserably!!
Sorry, it was first thing when i wrote this and i was grumpy.
The Ickle in my nickname was inherited so I am not to blame!
(, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 8:28, closed)
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