British culture is so impenetrable that, during World War II, even the German spy service, the Abwehr, were unable to successfully infiltrate British society. How, for example, would you make sense of the word Leicester? Would you pronounce it LESS-ter? Or the last name St. John-Stevas? Would you know to pronounce it sin-jin-STEE-vas? The last name Beauchamp is pronounced BEACH-em. Ich gebe auf! (I surrender!) In England, the second you open your mouth, you give away all your private information, rather like Facebook today.
