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 thought you could have "myriad something" or "a myriad of something", not "a myriad something"?
And if we're going to get SUPER picky; it's the Union Flag. It's only a Union Jack when flown from the back of a ship.
But even I call it the Union Jack in general.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 16:41, 1 reply)
That is pretty super pickybut I take it on board. I have a confession...I wrote my post at about 5:25 in the office so didn't go through it as thoroughly as I normally do. Also didn't take into account bomber jacket/Chinese tattoo fans. Or bombers.
May have to look up correct use of 'Myriad' - its a great word.
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