The New Corporate Handshake? In the ever-evolving landscape of British office culture, it seems that a well-placed expletive has become as integral to professional interactions as the traditional handshake. Recent studies suggest that the average UK office worker hears swear words approximately 11 times a day, with some environments clocking up to 25 instances. Seemingly […]
According to research presented at the Sociolinguistics Symposium, children start swearing at a much earlier age than they did a few decades ago. (Seemingly in the UK kids start swearing at the age of 4! In the 1980s most children didn't start to swear until they were 13. (I don't think I swore until I […]
Take care when you learn a new language. No really, be careful, especially if you take my advice to, "Mimic famous people, play with the different accents in films etc." http://www.learnenglish.de/ImproveEnglish/improvespeakingpage.html
The only way to afford a ticket is to move out and camp...
In the UK "shit" is a relatively mild swear word nowadays, but in America it's used for lots of different things:- Thanks to Chewks