I joined the meeting late and took refuge on a tiny Ottoman footstool as this serious-looking group of working class radicals met in the back of a pub, somewhere in Birmingham, England. It was proposed that they crash a speech by Labour “life peer” and union fat cat Baroness Margaret Prosser.
Brassed Off
August 23, 2009 at 1:00 am (British English, English)
Tags: Bill Bryson, British, Regional Expressions
Word Fun: Issue No. 3
This one comes from Bill Bryson’s The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way. Below is a list of British terms that Bryson, writing in 1990, challenges his mostly American audience to identify.
The Dialect 