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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so would it not be better to sayNever use a Brobdingnagian word where a small one would suffice
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spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 7:29,
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surelythat should be
"Never use a Brobdingnagian word where a Blefuscan would suffice"
?
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Wrong againit's
'Never use a Brobdingnagian word where a Liliputian would suffice.'
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