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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Oh man,here in California, I get told to go to the "British Dominion Club" by where I live. My response is always "why?"
Americans respond "because it's where the English people go"
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Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 6:00,
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