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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I call themslateybacks
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Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 23:14,
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My Welsh friend calls themgranny greys
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I call themarmadilloes.
Possibly due to a previous qotw answer... I've done it for a long time now, the origin is lost in the mists of time.
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warmfuzzies Isn't here, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 1:49,
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