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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Bread rollsRound where I live (South Manchester) they call them "muffins", as in "chip muffin please felloh". Back home, it'd be "chip barm please la"
I had never heard them called anything other than "bread rolls" until I heard my grandmother's butler call one a "barmcake" (out of earshot of my grandparents, obviously).
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