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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trying too hard.Where I used to live, I swear that every single person was a 'Hyacinth Bucket' type.
If you called the 'patisserie' a 'bakery' or a 'cake shop', they'd look at you like they didn't know what you were talking about.
Fucking Marseille.
(, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 21:06, 2 replies)
ha!hahaha click for you
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