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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made-up suburbsto avoid mentioning that you live in a particular area.
eg people used to claim to live in the non-existent area of Wanniassa Hills, because Wanniassa was a bit common.
(, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 20:50, closed)
Oy! I live in ChifleyThat's more common than Wanniassa.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 11:05, closed)
I live in Woodhouse in Leedsit's got a bit of a (undeserved) bad rep, the other day i heard some posh students describing it as Lower Headingley.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 16:47, closed)
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