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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Perhaps ...'What' used to be more acceptable than 'Pardon' because it was an abbreviation for "What did you say?"
Whereas now, 'What' is more likely to be short for "What the fuck do you want!"
(, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 5:27, Reply)
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