I Am British

Through & through. Sometimes I despair of what we do, but ultimately i’ll always value my heritage.

We are also a kinky nation despite our apparent prudish exterior... often at the forefront of new ideas, creative & engaging, mostly leading... & certainly in my own experience never short of someone to have a discussion with, when at the bar in another country... it appears being British, our accent, our outlook will forever be an interesting point of reference..

This page is a permanent link to the reply below and its nested replies. See all post replies »

ArishMell · 70-79, M

"..., our accent, ..."

Errr, which accent? We've lots, even within our individual countries in Britain!

Something I treasure, too, in an age increasingly of national individualities and the English language being crushed by the likes of Hollywood, Google and Microsoft.

My own accent is an odd mix of Southern (not Home Counties Sewell-ism though)and Somewhere-North-East-of-the-Severn, thanks to being a South coast native of Midlands parentage, and with Yorkshire friends from whom I've picked up some dialect constructions.

I wonder how the Cornish-language romanticists can revive a language dead for far too long to have evolved, as Welsh and come to that many other extant languages did, to absorb thousands of new words and concepts without looking and sounding desperately contrived. Even the deeply-patriotic French have largely given up the unequal struggle, by adopting English words like "week-end" unaltered but for assigning them a gender, to coin a phrase.