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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Great Uncle BulgariaSurely the patriarchal Womble, lording it around in his Tartan hat and specs went some way to dispelling that myth?
I'll concede that Madame Cholet was nothing more than a slack thonged, common whore with basic culinary skills if it's any consolation.
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