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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When I lived in NewcastleThere was a banner hanging outside of a house that read "HAPPY 30th GRANDMA".
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CowJam, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 21:46,
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Was that the house next door tothe house you tried to steal a garden gnome from on the way back from the pub?
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