In the UK, we talk incessantly about the weather. In a recent study, 94% of British people admitted to having talked about the weather in the past six hours, and 38% in the last hour. There are a few reasons for this obsession; The first is that we have a LOT of weather. In my hometown […]
British dialects
Nine Names for British Bread-Lumps
Bread-lumps of Britain! In the UK, and especially England, we have an incredible variety of names for the humble medium-sized-bread-lump.While roll, bun, and bap are the 3 most common, there are many rarer and weirdly specific words found in different regions. In Coventry or the Wirral Peninsula, they call it a “batch”. In South Yorkshire […]