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While we may spend much of our time moaning about our weather, foreigners are not allowed to criticise it.
censure
belittle
scoffing
sniffily
unselfconsciously
unashamedly
patri...
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prickly
inhibited,
SIRC
publican)
crass.
peculiar
quintessentially
Bro...
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arcane,
soothing
vessels,
craft
seafarers
mesmerised
cade...
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Utsire,
Faroes, Fair Isle, Cromarty, Forties, Forth, Dogger.
Sea areas
until all of the thirty-one sea areas have been covered – and millions of English listeners,
litany,
sacrilege?
be...
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f...
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Finisterre to F...
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Sea area
o...
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tem...
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ballistic,’
wicket
sacred moment in sporting history
cr...
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long wave.’
hullabaloo
precedence of etiquette over logic.
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proscription
gander.
The understatement is also difficult for foreigners to ‘get’ because it is, in effect, an in-joke about our own unwritten rules of humour.
we aspire to modesty. The modesty that we actually display is generally false – or, to put it more charitably, ironic.
Settee
sweet course at the end of a meal is called the ‘pudding
‘
‘lumpenproletariat
