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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It really irks me tooI think it's common in a lot of different regions as well. In Scotland there are some people who use it a lot and inexplicably strech the word out to 'liiiiike'.
Every single sentence they do it!
(, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 8:45, 1 reply)
to be honest..i earn loads of money so i don't care
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