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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Pass the dibber pleaseI think asking someone what is common is rather common if I must say. Haha not really.
I suppose my concept of class and what was common or not came from my parents, as I imagine everyone’s concept does to some extent.
My mother forbade me from ( amongst other things):
- Referring to lunch as ‘dinner’
- Using my mouth to ‘cut’ my toenails. (fair point that)
- Using the word ‘settee’.
- Using the word ‘dibber’ to describe the dibber. It’s a ‘remote control’ apparently.
She also used to be obsessed about me using jokey contractions for words. She used to visibly wince if I called a chocolate bar, a ‘chocky bar’. She also used to close her eyes and whisper something in latin if I called her ‘mam’, which I did frequently.
(, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:22, 2 replies)
I can't decidewhich one of you is wrong. Either you for trying to change TV channels with a garden implement, or your mother for making holes in the garden with an item of electronic gadgetry. Bizarre, either way.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 12:24, closed)
Using your mouth to WHAT?Ugh.
Why would you even WANT to do that, even as a child?
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 14:17, closed)
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