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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Having been accepted by Edinburgh uniThen going to Heriot-Watt instead, it sounds as if I only just escaped...
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MatJ LOOK, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 19:50,
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