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Freddy 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?

(I helped save b3ta! chthonic, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:06)
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This is a QotW answer A list of things that aren't common enough:
Common courtesy
Common knowledge
Common sense
the usage of the word "tomfoolery"
(The Oscillating Gibbon is eating curried squid, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:19, closed)
This is a QotW comment ?
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(tomo'foolery, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:22, closed)
This is a QotW comment I approve so much
I now require new underpants.
(Bearded Whumpus In chav Britain, schoolgirl offers sweets to YOU!, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:26, closed)
This is a QotW comment Can we also have "jiggery-pokery"?
A particular favourite of mine.
(Reverend Fister with buttocks quivering in anticipation on, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:32, closed)
This is a QotW comment ?
I have just returned from some 'tom-stoolery' in the bathroom.


Rats, I just realised that talking about WCs is common.
(powervator Twitted his twat on http://twitter.com/pow3rvator, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:33, closed)
This is a QotW comment .
I like 'tomfoolery'. I also like 'twilight' and 'hooplah'. Lets bring back good words from the past! My flatmate refered to dusk as 'the gloaming' the other day, which makes it sound much more interesting!
(G-Lo, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:38, closed)
This is a QotW comment clumsiness
People should excuse light clumsiness with "whoops-a-daisy"

Light clumsiness such as stumbling on a doorstep or bumping into someone.

Not heavy clumsiness such as losing a limb to agricultural machinery or dropping a tray of anthrax and sarin.
(sandettie light vessel automatic My dog has no dictionary, how does it spell awful?, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:44, closed)
This is a QotW comment I'm quite fond of
a) shenanigans, and;
b) gusset.
(Boss Keloid Following Hitler with bourbon biscuits, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:55, closed)
This is a QotW comment *Click*
For tomfoolery
(robbersdog, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 16:19, closed)
This is a QotW comment I like
Discombobulated as a word. Partly because if people ask what it means, they are.
(I helped save b3ta! MatJ finally got bored of hedonism, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 16:23, closed)
This is a QotW comment Damn skippy.
Also, I see your "tomfoolery" and raise you a "gallimaufry".
(Astatine, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 16:47, closed)
This is a QotW comment Well played.
Also, I'm partial to "yowza" and "rannygazoo". They go well together and are uncommonly common.
(douchebarge, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 17:20, closed)
This is a QotW comment and let's give two hips and a hooray for
malarky
(seeballs, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 18:12, closed)
This is a QotW comment another neglectologism
Personally, I can't get enough of 'gewgaws' - they're everywhere!
(in-knock-you-us, Sat 18 Oct 2008, 12:56, closed)
This is a QotW comment This thread
Has some truly amazing words in it
(The Oscillating Gibbon is eating curried squid, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 8:44, closed)
This is a QotW comment And yet nobody has thus far mentioned
"Gobbledygook."

(Possibly because it's no longer polite to refer to Vietnamese turkeys in this way.)

Sorry...
(The Supreme Crow with all the charm of a musk ox, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 18:14, closed)

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