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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My mom loves telling this storyBefore they retired, my parents had their own consulting business. One night, they took one of their new clients, a French-Canadian man with a tenuous grasp of English, out to dinner.
When the food arrived, the client hesitated before finally saying, "Good appetite!"
My mom tutted and replied, "In English, we say 'bon appetite.'"
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ClassI'd love to hear more like that.
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