The English Companion: An Idiosyncratic Guide to England & Englishness from A to ZC.N. Potter, 1984 - 272 pages |
Common terms and phrases
American army Auden average Englishman battle Bernard Bertie Wooster Betjeman Birmingham British British Raj Brontë called Cambridge celebrated century Charters and Caldicott Churchill club colour Connolly cricket Cyril Connolly D.H. Lawrence Dickens England English Eton Etonian Evelyn Waugh film football Fortnums French George Orwell German girls grammar school half Harold Harold Nicolson Harold Wilson honour hundred island race Jeeves John John Betjeman Labour Lady land language later living London Lord lunch Maugham means million modern never Noël Coward novel once Oxford Party perhaps played poet political pubs pudding Queen remarked royal Rugby Rupert Bear sense Somerset sport Street television thank-you theatre thirties took truth Victorian Waugh Welsh Wimsey Winston Winston Churchill women Wooster word writer wrote Yorkshire young
References to this book
British English for American Readers: A Dictionary of the Language, Customs ... David Grote No preview available - 1992 |