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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You considered this for half an hour??I'm somehow left with the feeling that a vital piece of research has been completely scuppered by this thread.
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masakatsu best of all the burger meats, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 10:44,
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