
Freddy 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?
( , Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:06)
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I am a Northerner and I refuse to call a bread roll a "barm cake" or a "bun"
Cakes and buns are sweet, bread rolls are not.
( , Thu 23 Oct 2008, 13:01, Reply)
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