Summary
THERE is no doubt that language reveals a national identity. Unfortunately, judging by Tony Thorne's book of English slang words, our fundamental character is a bit dodgy, or not as "nice" as we think we are.
Instead, his book Jolly Wicked, Actually: The 100 Words that Make Us English, shows us to be rather a dissembling and duplicitous race, the "perfidious Albion" of old, in fact.See the full content of this document
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It's That Barking Bloke Going for a Nice Cuppa, Innit?
Nice itself, that much overused English word (which I've just written in the second paragraph) is, says Thorne, one which "epitomises the English inability to state th...
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