What Brits say v what they mean: FP2P all time no. 1 hit

What with the summer torpor and being stuck at home finishing a paper, the usual flow of conversations and new reading has dried up a bit. Not only that, but I just realized this blog had passed its fifth anniversary without me even noticing. Tsk. So what better way to plug the occasional gap celebrate than a glance back at the most read posts of the last five years? Given the churn in readership, there’s a fair chance you won’t have seen these – well that’s my excuse anyway. First up, from June 2011 (and number one by a mile), this wonderful deconstruction of Britspeak, c/o Nick Pialek: