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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did see your earlier answerA lot of these posts are funny because we read them and recognise aspects of ‘commonness’ in ourselves, although we wouldn’t necessarily class ourselves as such. We are all different. Maybe it ‘ain’t what you say it’s the way that you say it’? I have really enjoyed this QOTW. I am also halfway through Ben Elton’s ‘Blind Faith’ at the moment, which, if you haven’t read it yet, I would recommend. Just hope he isn’t right!
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Itsallsugar is made up of bits of names, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 18:31,
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