That's what did for Tycho Brahe. He was on a drinking binge with the king(?) and it wasn't the done thing to be the first to go to the toilet. Died of a burst bladder. (View Post)

I enjoy 'going to drop the kids off at the pool'. But I also enjoy half-euphemism, rendered useless by the inclusion of the word you've been trying to avoid e.g. just going to do a poo… (View Post)

Suggest it's because England had RP. 70 years ago, if you went to a grammar school or a private school, you'd have RP drummed into you. (I'd say that started to break down in the 60s -… (View Post)

Where are they from? My parents pronounce lots of words differently - but one word which they pronounce the same, but differently to everyone else is 'cagoul' - which they pronounce to rhym… (View Post)

Scone rhyming with cone always sounds a bit Hyacinth Bucket to my ears too. But interestingly one of the few areas of the map which is clearly one or the other is a blob around Sheffield and Stoke. S… (View Post)