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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innitI heard a shop assistant tell their friend:
"Its not 'I was drunk innit'! Its 'I was drunk isn't it'".
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browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 23:14,
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This amused me to no endSo you get a clicky.
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Sounds like blind leading the blind :)Welcome to modern Britain!
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