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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Clicked, init....You are right. Plymouth is one large council estate and language is not the janners strong point. Walk past any local costcutter on a Saturday and hear the squawks of mothers claiming that they "need to go up Asdas to get their lottery's" while simultaneously slapping their child around the face. I moved here....and can assure you that it wasn't out of choice.
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You have my very deepest sympathies...Oh you poor thing, I feel your pain because I have lived it.
The ASDA at Leigham is particularly common, but as I understand it, is considered to be the utmost of sophistication by residents of Honicknowle and North Prospect.
One of the most common places and also one of the scariest places I ever saw in Plymouth was a small set of shops in Ernesettle. The small Co-Op super market had displayed in the window a sign which read "A local shop for local people". I was never sure if this was a direct quote from the league of Gentlemen.
This area was the first place I visited where pre-teen children sat outside the News Agent and asked passers by to go in and buy them some cigarettes.
I am sorry Janners, but your city is frightfully common and escaping to Bath was the best thing I ever did. Mind you, I did live in Twerton for a while...
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Rev. Jayneflakes Buy my book, I need the cash for drugs and hookers, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 23:33,
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