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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i only half agree with thisYou say "when they could". In this particular case, if it causes another driver on the road to take drastic action, then I think it would be fair to argue that they actually couldn't, because it was unsafe to do so.
But yes, the general point is a fair one. Just the circumstances seem to suggest that perhaps it wasn't the best manouvre.
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bluemeat has been best of all the animals since, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 10:59,
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