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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Browser reminded me of a Leicester mothercorrecting her child outside Argos:
"It ent 'ain't', it's 'isn't', innit!"
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blyerkit e k trilby, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 11:32,
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I don't believe you for a secondbut it made me laugh!
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HmmNot been around Leicester much then. Lesta chats like propa bad man innit.
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