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 while you're at it...Those tasty little baked snacks made with eggs, flour and sugar and often topped with icing, chocolate or other sweet things, that people bring into the office on their birthday, are "cakes". Not "buns", which are bread-based comestibles.
(, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 12:12, 1 reply)
BOLLOCKS!I'm not having that!
Cakes are large affairs with much more icing and usually in two layers with buttercream etc in the middle. They are cut into portions and served.
"Buns" is used to equally describe small, individual-portion bread loaves and the type of sponge-cake-in-a-paper-case you describe.
(, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 12:17, closed)
A small sponge cakein a little paper case is still a cake, just a small one. A bun is more bready and may contain currants and be iced and have glace cherries on top
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