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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alsosofa/settee and lunch/dinner is a regional difference, not a class difference. Several people are effectively saying that Northern = common. A tad offensive, no?
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:24, 1 reply)
Well, I'm from the North.Yorkshire, Scotland and Manchester. And Southern twats piss me off.
"Tongue in cheek."
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