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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...and then go on, completely straightfaced, about how they wouldn't live in England any morebecause of all the bleedin' immigrants.
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chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 10:57,
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Aye...who "don't make an effort to fit in" *facepalm*
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