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's a pun on a Spoonerism of a proverbwhich explains why you're confused!
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 14:29,
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