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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Let yourself down at the end there."cannot speak THERE own language". Tsk, tsk. And new keyboard is no excuse for that.
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Ghoti Fingers, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 7:20,
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I was justabout to point out the same thing.
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